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United States v. Apple competition in America
One of the most followed antitrust cases of recent times--United States v. Apple--reveals a missed truth: what Americans most fear is competition itself. In 2012 the Department of Justice accused Apple and five book publishers of conspiring to fix e-book prices. The evidence overwhelmingly showed an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; 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 Amazon9. 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 Values22. The Creeping Profusion of Externalities; Conclusion: Real Ironies; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index