When I reported last Thursday that a class-action suit had been filed against Amazon, accusing them of conspiring with publishers, I apparently had missed that the...Continue reading
News broke this week that Amazon is being sued for colluding with five major publishers to inflate prices. The case was filed by the same law...Continue reading
It’s hard to beleive that it’s been, what, 5 years since we last played this game, but the US book publishing industry is back to its...Continue reading
For the past 9 or so years app developers have had a quasi-truce with Apple. So long as the developer didn’t sell anything inside the app...Continue reading
There’s a growing chorus of U.S. politicians, antitrust scholars and consumer watchdogs calling for stricter antitrust treatment of Amazon, Google, Facebook and other tech giants. Some even say they should be broken...Continue reading
I have heard from a few readers, and now Dear Author has confirmed, that Kobo has joined Amazon and Barnes & Noble in redistributing unused credits...Continue reading
Amazon isn’t the only ebook retailer sending out credits for the ebook antitrust settlement this week; Barnes & Noble has also announced that it is disbursing...Continue reading
Amazon is sending out emails this morning with the news that ebook buyers are getting another ebook antitrust settlement payment. the money comes from the fine Apple paid...Continue reading
The funds Apple paid out as restitution for its role in conspiring to raise and fix ebook prices in early 2010 ar about to expire. In late...Continue reading
The most-favored-nation clause is a tool invented by Apple and used by Amazon to prevent being undercut by price competition. It is on house arrest in...Continue reading
Last month’s settlement between the Canadian Competition Bureau, Apple, and 3 trade publishers has attracted little press attention, so there’s a good chance that more than...Continue reading
Yesterday’s news about Apple and three major trade publishers agreeing to give up agency price controls in Canada has been misreported in some circles, with one...Continue reading
The two antitrust complaints made against Amazon by book publishers in Germany turned out to have no merit, but the ongoing EU investigation may have legs....Continue reading
Kobo has successfully appealed a 2014 consent agreement between the Canadian Competition Bureau and Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster where the publishers had agreed to...Continue reading
Now that Trump is the presumptive GOP candidate for president, some pundits have said that he would tone down his rhetoric and start wooing the mainstream...Continue reading