Comments on: Publishers and ebooks: innovation, DRM, and resale price maintenance

By: TRUTH ON THE MARKET » Amazon vs. Macmillan: It’s all about control

TRUTH ON THE MARKET » Amazon vs. Macmillan: It’s all about control — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:36:44 +0000

[...] to a pulp in the blogosphere. See Megan McArdle, John Scalzi, Joshua Gans, Virginia Postrel, Lynne Kiesling, Lynne Kielsing and Lynne Kiesling, among others. Pulp or no (get it? It’s a book/e-book [...]

By: The Amazon-Macmillan ebook kerfuffle: an ode to price discrimination « Knowledge Problem

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:39:59 +0000

[...] the DRM/property rights issues and the antitrust/resale price maintenance issues I discussed in my last post on the matter. Lots of people have weighed in on the subject in the past 36 hours, and I recommend some of them [...]

By: clay barham

clay barham — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:11:13 +0000

Seems to me that economic growth means that which is created and brought to market that has not existed before, a positive change created by innovators not afraid to make waves and wakes, as cited in Save Pebble Droppers & Prosperity on Amazon.com and claysamerica.com

By: TF

TF — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:58:33 +0000

A more business-oriented take on the same issue: http://www.platformonomics.com/PricelessIndeed.aspx

By: legalinformatics

legalinformatics — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:12 +0000

The Economists’ Brief in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., No. 06-480 (U.S. June 28, 2007) may also be of interest: http://j.mp/ckkX0T . The brief summarizes the economic literature showing that minimum resale price maintenance (RPM) can have procompetitive, efficiency-enhancing, and consumer-welfare enhancing effects.