> I'm confused why this is anti-trust. Isn't this how all wholesale vendor deals work?
Amazon has to have it tough - it is often both a retailer and distributor at the same time. The problem here was getting multiple retailers (of which Amazon was one) to agree to set pricing (this is textbook price fixing). If I leave out the part about Amazon being the marketplace, this seems like a slam-dunk price fixing case. If we view it like a wholesale agreement, I think it's a lot harder to see what the AG was after.
Amazon has to have it tough - it is often both a retailer and distributor at the same time. The problem here was getting multiple retailers (of which Amazon was one) to agree to set pricing (this is textbook price fixing). If I leave out the part about Amazon being the marketplace, this seems like a slam-dunk price fixing case. If we view it like a wholesale agreement, I think it's a lot harder to see what the AG was after.