The FAS also suspected that Apple was able to do the termination of sale agreements with these 16 retailers if their guidelines for fix-pricing were not met. Even though Apple denied the charge, the FAS still pursued the investigation which took seven months.
In the age of the slow death of the print industry, book authors and magazines must become a bit more avant garde and push their boundaries if they expect to survive. But with a bit of blood and creative marketing one German magazine may keep its face in the headlines, and its reader’s aware in the process.