SO WHAT? You still do not grasp that prices going up is NOT evidence of price fixing, in and of itself. The continual low prices of Amazon WAS classical price fixing to control the market for anti-competition purposes. . . Amazon was doing the SAME DAMN THING WITH HARD COPY BOOKS and was driving the brick and mortar book stores out of business by selling the bread-and-butter best sellers and A-list books, which comprised 80% of the profits of such stores BELOW WHOLESALE COST! Yet the Obama Justice Department took no action because Amazon's primary owner was a huge donor to Obama and Democrats!
If you think that is a good thing, you are not a conservative.
When the world’s largest publishers struck e-book distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online retail giant often applies.
But in the early going, that strategy doesn’t appear to be paying off. Three big publishers that signed new pacts with Amazon— Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group, News Corp ’s HarperCollins Publishers and CBS Corp. ’s Simon & Schuster—reported declining e-book revenue in their latest reporting periods.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/e-book-sales-weaken-amid-higher-prices-1441307826