i heard that on the news and i was like... take that apple!
i hope next would be digital games vs retail games...

Silly apple. Why did they need to do this. Also saw this and found it quite amusing.

Good. I hope they keep getting fined and lose more court cases.

Not good.. Amazon undercuts everyone hurting the writers and publishers.. books have been devalued a lot beause of Amazon.. won't be surprised if some publishers will go down..

if they dont like amazon prices they shouldn't do business with them.

That's actually what prompted the DoJ's whole investigation. Publishers tried to withhold books from Amazon unless they changed to the agency model. Amazon complained to the DoJ.

I might be able to get behind this ruling if the DoJ showed any signs at all of investigating Amazon for predatory pricing. Why the hell is the new entrant being investigated before the monopolist?

Oh, when the monopolist is forced to stop selling books below cost, the price of books goes up? How shocking. Barnes & Noble testified that Amazon's pricing scheme made competition impossible, and they planned to do the same thing Apple did: Change the business model to make competition possible again.

Now we have a competitive landscape where Amazon has been given a license from the DoJ to use predatory pricing to squeeze out competition in e-books, it can use its tax-evasion tactics to tighten its grip on paper books, and Amazon already has projects well underway to displace publishers from the value chain. The same clowns who have failed to prosecute a single banker over the economic collapse are handing over an entire medium to one company on a silver platter.

Apple shit is so god damn expensive. I went into the Apple store to buy a Laptop and the pricing on them is ridiculous. They all have Intel Graphics cards and 4 GB of ram and still they cost over $1000...Seriously Apple?

I've been to BestBuy and perused around to see more than one over $1000 laptop, that wasn't worth it. It's not only Apple who have expensive things. It's the entire industry.

OT: This won't affect Apple in anyway, if that's what people are thinking. They are too big to completely crash after losing a case.

That's incorrect.

Amazon hurts publishers it is true.

Amazon is however one of the main reason royalties rate paid to writers  is much higher on e-books than on paper books.

It's a bad assumption to assume everything bad for publishers is bad for writers.  Publisher and writer interests only intersect in the case of big very popular writer.

This seems to be a case of anti-trust law being too ham-fisted to suit its supposed purpose of improving competition.  According to Wikipedia, even conspiring to LOWER prices is considered illegal price-fixing, which sets a very low bar for the DoJ to pass.  On the other hand, successful cases against predatory pricing are few and far between.  In a way, Apple got punished for going vigilante to bust up the Amazon monopoly before the DoJ could be bothered to lift a finger.