Originally Posted by edEx:
“I'm sorry, but the case was everything to do with Amazon. The publishers that admitted their collusion with Apple said so much in court. They didn't want to have one dominant supplier controlling the eBook market and able to dictate prices to publishers, so they and Apple got together and fixed prices of eBooks in order to build Apple up as a competitor and cut Amazon out of the deal. That's why Amazon went to the US Department of Justice and asked for the investigation that led to the prosecution in the first place.
As for what it's got to do with smartphones, do you read eBooks on your smartphone? I've yet to meet anyone that does, even those people that have those big screen phablets. People mostly read eBooks on Kindles and tablets.”
huge thread already on this so last post on ebooks.
Publishers were unhappy with Amazon agreed, Apple used this unhappiness to become "ringleaders" in this conspiracy to fix prices. The DOJ/Judge branded Apple ringleaders, they also used alternate measures to force those publishers who had cold feet into going through with the deal. Apple could care less about Amazon they wanted this for the ipad launch and wanted a preferential deal off publishers so they made more money from ebooks than anyone else and not just by raising the price overnight.
So it had nothing to do with Amazon because they were not breaking the law, apple and publishers used them as an excuse for their actions as have several apple apologists including on here.
lastly yes I do often, done a study on these reading habits have you!! because I really want to carry a tablet out to read a book. Perhaps you should get out more or look at phones capable of properly reading ebooks on them