You have a guaranteed monopoly on the price of Bingo Card Creator. I am not sure you would appreciate it if Paypal/(Insert other card processors here) said that they will only let you sell via them if you sold it for 9.99$. I don't that not fair either. You should be free to set the price of your goods, it is not a question of pro-consumer, its a question of using near monopoly to get a power which the market enabler should not have.
(Sorry if the last para reads like a personal attack, as it uses a personal example. That is to use an example which you and other hacker news readers are familiar with.)
That's not really right, though. Amazon is a store. They should have the right to purchase books at the rate they can negotiate and sell the books for the price they feel the market can support.
MacMillan, on the other hand, is trying to force retailers like Apple and Amazon to sell them for the same price, eliminating competition and create artificially high prices (aka price fixing). And really, trying to argue that price fixing is good for consumers is a very difficult position to defend.
I am not arguing whether this is good for consumers or bad(I have no opinion/idea), I am arguing that "Goods producers" should have should have right to fix prices for their products.
I have trouble seeing Amazon a store for Kindle ebooks. In my worldview they are a middleman/affiliate/market creators. (keep no inventory, Publishers get paid after purchases etc.)
Good producers have a right to fix prices for their products. Stores have a right to refuse to stock items that it believes are too expensive. I don't see the problem here.
I don't see why you have any problem calling Amazon a store for Kindle ebooks when you're willing to see publishers as "goods producers". They're both essentially middle-men.
The producer is still setting a price and getting paid that price.
If you're saying that nobody should ever be able to resell at a different price, then you're outlawing free giveaways, promotions, markups, etc... basically neutering the whole "free market" concept.
You have a guaranteed monopoly on the price of Bingo Card Creator. I am not sure you would appreciate it if Paypal/(Insert other card processors here) said that they will only let you sell via them if you sold it for 9.99$. I don't that not fair either. You should be free to set the price of your goods, it is not a question of pro-consumer, its a question of using near monopoly to get a power which the market enabler should not have.
(Sorry if the last para reads like a personal attack, as it uses a personal example. That is to use an example which you and other hacker news readers are familiar with.)