US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices
I for one applaud this effort and always viewed the agency model as anticompetitive, anticonsumer and arguably outright price fixing.<p>Ebooks have essentially zero printing and distribution costs and, from the publisher's point of view, can't be resold like paper books can. For both of these reasons they should be cheaper. On this point, Jeff Atwood actually makes sense [1].<p>I know the spiel about pricing having nothing to do with the cost of production, blah blah blah. I don't care. The present situation is stupid and ultimately shortsighted. Only Amazon seems to be interested in creating an ebook market rather than just gouging consumers.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/books-bits-vs-atoms.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/books-bits-vs-atoms...</a>