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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674243286
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082 0 4 _a343.7307/25
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSagers, Chris
_eautore
245 1 0 _aUnited States v. Apple :
_bCompetition in America /
_cChris Sagers.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (336 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: A Case Bigger Than It Seemed --
_tPART I . POLICY AS PROLOGUE --
_t1. The Great Generalization --
_t2. In the First Ships: Competition as a Concept and Its Special Role in American History --
_t3. And Yet, Uncertainty: The Long Shadows of the American Methodenstreit --
_t4. Uncertainty of Another Kind: Coping with Capitalism through Association and Self-Help --
_t5. Tensions of the Latter Day and Some Unexpected Skepticism --
_t6. Competition as a Living Policy, circa 2019 --
_tPART II. THE EBOOKS CASE --
_t7. The Old Business of Books --
_t8. Bookselling and the Birth of Amazon --
_t9. Publishers, Booksellers, and the Oldest Problem in the World --
_t10. Price-Fixing in Books --
_t11. Content and the Digital Transition in Historical Context --
_t12. The Promise and Threat of Electronic Books --
_t13. How Electronic Books Came to Be, and What It Would Mean for the Apple Case --
_t14. Google Books --
_t15. The Kindle --
_t16. The eBooks Conspiracy --
_tPART III. COMPETITION AND ITS MANY REGRETS --
_t17. The Long Agony of Antitrust --
_t18. So Are Books, After All, Special? Is Anything? --
_t19. The Virtues of Vertical and Entry for Its Own Sake --
_t20. Amazon --
_t21. The Threat to Writers and the Threat to Cultural Values --
_t22. The Creeping Profusion of Externalities --
_tConclusion: Real Ironies --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aAntitrust law
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPrice fixing
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPublishers and publishing
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRestraint of trade
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aLAW / Antitrust.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674243286
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