Author Phillip Pullman has apparently reached either the age or stature that he feels he no longer has to pay attention to reality. The Bookseller reports that Pullman wants the...
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Category: Price Fix Six
HarperCollins Vows to Fight Back in Canadian eBook Price-Fixing Case
HarperCollins was the only one of four major Canadian trade publishers to sit out the negotiated settlement with the Canadian Competition Bureau in January. This week it announced that it...
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Canadian Regulators Reach Deal With Apple, Publishers on eBook Pricing Controls
There is much gnashing of teeth today in Toronto as the Canadian Competition Bureau defeats Kobo's years-long effort to avoid competing with Amazon. Canada's business competition watchdog said on...
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DoJ Asks Supreme Court to Deny Apple’s Appeal
The US Dept of Justice filed its brief in response to Apple's Supreme Court appeal last week. Arguing that the July 2013 antitrust ruling that concluded Apple was "a member of...
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Kris Rusch: Amazon is in a Price War With Publishers
Amazon surprised many pundits over the past year as they signed deal after deal that gave publishers control over ebook prices, but now I think we know why. While...
Continue readingCanadian Competition Bureau Strikes Deal With 4 Publishers, Ends Agency Pricing
With the exception of Apple going through the Nth round of their fight with the DOJ, the agency era is pretty much over with here in the US and...
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Penguin, EU Agree to Antitrust Settlement
When Apple and 4 of their co-conspirators announced an agreement with the European Commission last September, Penguin was nowhere to be found. That publisher was in the process of...
Continue readingJudge Rules that Apple Conspired to Raise Prices on eBooks
Well that didn't take long. Judge Cote is back in court today with a ruling in the anti-trust trial against Apple. The judge found that Apple did indeed conspire...
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EU Announces Settlement for eBook Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Here's some news which will receive a resounding Eh from the many European countries who have fixed price book laws. The European Commission announced today that they had formally...
Continue readingAt $17.99, The Casual Vacancy eBook Not a Casual Purchase
With her new book, The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling is not going to repeat her Harry Potter mistake and keep the electronic version sequestered away for years. But as...
Continue readingFurther Developments in Agency Pricing, Google Books Lawsuits
PaidContent has updates on a couple of e-book-related lawsuit stories today. First, Judge Denise Cote has approved the $69 million everyone-but-Minnesota lawsuit settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon &...
Continue readingWhere Will E-Book Prices Go After the Settlement?
Say what you will about Bob Kohn, he’s certainly persistent. PaidContent reports that he’s filed a last-minute request for a stay on Judge Cote’s ruling that the Department of...
Continue readingJudge Denise Cote Approves Department of Justice Agency Pricing Settlement
Well, that was fast. Just two days after Bob Kohn filed his comic-book amicus curae brief, Judge Denise Cote has issued an opinion approving the settlement proposal put forward...
Continue readingLet Me Draw You Some Pictures: Bob Kohn Files 5-page Comic Book Amicus Brief in DoJ Agency Pricing Anti-Trust Settlement Hearing
If a picture is really worth a thousand words, Bob Kohn may have found a clever way to get around Judge Cote’s insistence that he get only the same...
Continue readingBought Agency Priced E-Books? $69 Million Settlement Pay-Out Is on the Way!
If you’re a US resident who bought any agency-priced e-books from one of the major e-book sellers and don’t live in Minnesota, rejoice! A $69 million settlement between 49...
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