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IIRC it's because it comes from before when Apple was sued over charging 25-30% of all eBooks sales while pushing iBooks.
See: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/12/eu-investigating-whether-publishers-conspired-with-apple-on-e-book-pricing/
It was a while ago though so hard to find good sources now.