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 from the ebook...
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Category: Antitrust
Barnes & Noble Now Redistributing Unused Credits From the eBook Antitrust Settlement
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 additional credits starting...
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Amazon Sent Me a 76 Cent Credit From the Apple eBook Price-Fixing Settlement – How Should I Spend It?
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 as a result...
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Kindle Users Have Three More Days to Use Their Apple eBook Credit
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 2015 Apple was...
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EU Accepts Amazon eBook Commitments to Settle Antitrust Case
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 the European ebook...
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Apple to Publishers, Authors: No MFN Enforcement in Canada Until 2020
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 a few publishers...
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Canada’s Agency eBook Pricing Settlement Will Have Little Impact on eBook Prices
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 person going so...
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Sources Say Amazon Wants to Settle EU Antitrust eBook Investigation
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. Reuters reports that Amazon...
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Kobo Wins Appeal Over Agency eBook Pricing in Canada
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 abandon agency pricing...
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Donald Trump: Amazon has “a Huge Antitrust Problem”
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 voters he had...
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The German Antitrust Complaints Against Amazon, Audible Were Nothing More Than PR Stunts
Over the past couple years a couple antitrust complaints have been made against Amazon by publishers in Germany, but aside from the initial press splash little has been reported since....
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Apple is On the Hook for the $450m Settlement after Supreme Court Rejects Apple’s eBook Conspiracy Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Apple Inc's challenge to an appellate court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, meaning it...
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US Appeals Court Upholds Apple eBook Settlement
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Apple's $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise ebook prices. The 2nd US...
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Judge Cote Dismisses Part of eBook Retailers’ Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers
Apple has scored a minor victory in its ongoing legal battles over the 2010 conspiracy to raise and fix ebook prices. A little over a month ago Judge Denise...
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Apple’s Last Chance to Win eBook Conspiracy Case Lies with Securing Supreme Court Hearing
Despite having the world’s most popular smartphone model, and for a while a near monopoly on the tablet market, Apple has not been able make much of a dent...
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