United States v. Apple : : Competition in America /

United States v. Apple : : Competition in America / / Chris Sagers.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Sagers, Chris,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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