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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5890770" data-attributes="member: 177">That article does have a couple of points to it that might bear highlighting:Which, for our discussion, is pretty important.  The DoJ isn't trying to do away with the Agency model, but have problems with how the current deals came about.Yeah, that's not anti-competitive action by Apple at all!  (That was sarcasm, folks)  If you enter into this Agency model, you have to stop dealing with other sellers who are willing to sell lower? I wonder at this one.  It holds only if you buy 22-23 e-books for the lifetime of a device instead of new paper books.  It seems the analysis takes into account the carbon footprint of production.  It is not clear to me if it deals in other impacts - like the chemical waste inherent in the production of electronic devices (paper manufacture has wastes too, and you have to be careful in comparing them), mining operations for the rare earth elements involved, or the effects of recycling the devices (or, more importantly, *not* recycling them properly) and so on.</blockquote>