TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sagers,Chris
TI  - United States v. Apple: Competition in America 
SN  - 9780674243286
U1  - 343.7307/25 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Antitrust law
KW  - United States
KW  - Price fixing
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Restraint of trade
KW  - LAW / Antitrust
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: A Case Bigger Than It Seemed --; PART I . POLICY AS PROLOGUE --; 1. The Great Generalization --; 2. In the First Ships: Competition as a Concept and Its Special Role in American History --; 3. And Yet, Uncertainty: The Long Shadows of the American Methodenstreit --; 4. Uncertainty of Another Kind: Coping with Capitalism through Association and Self-Help --; 5. Tensions of the Latter Day and Some Unexpected Skepticism --; 6. Competition as a Living Policy, circa 2019 --; PART II. THE EBOOKS CASE --; 7. The Old Business of Books --; 8. Bookselling and the Birth of Amazon --; 9. Publishers, Booksellers, and the Oldest Problem in the World --; 10. Price-Fixing in Books --; 11. Content and the Digital Transition in Historical Context --; 12. The Promise and Threat of Electronic Books --; 13. How Electronic Books Came to Be, and What It Would Mean for the Apple Case --; 14. Google Books --; 15. The Kindle --; 16. The eBooks Conspiracy --; PART III. COMPETITION AND ITS MANY REGRETS --; 17. The Long Agony of Antitrust --; 18. So Are Books, After All, Special? Is Anything? --; 19. The Virtues of Vertical and Entry for Its Own Sake --; 20. Amazon --; 21. The Threat to Writers and the Threat to Cultural Values --; 22. The Creeping Profusion of Externalities --; Conclusion: Real Ironies --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In 2012, when the Justice Department sued Apple and five book publishers for price fixing, many observers sided with the defendants. It was a reminder that, in practice, Americans are ambivalent about competition. Chris Sagers shows why protecting price competition, even when it hurts some of us, is crucial if antitrust law is to preserve markets
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674243286
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