Price Fix Six

After Pretending the Last 20 Years Never Happened, Phillip Pullman Calls for Return of Fixed Book Prices

31 July, 2017 // 12 Comments

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 UK government to [Read More ...]

HarperCollins Vows to Fight Back in Canadian eBook Price-Fixing Case

7 March, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 would [Read More ...]

Canadian Regulators Reach Deal With Apple, Publishers on eBook Pricing Controls

20 January, 2017 // 6 Comments

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 [Read More ...]

DoJ Asks Supreme Court to Deny Apple’s Appeal

30 December, 2015 // 1 Comment

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 a horizontal [Read More ...]

Kris Rusch: Amazon is in a Price War With Publishers

6 August, 2015 // 15 Comments

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 Amazon was publicly fighting with [Read More ...]

Canadian Competition Bureau Strikes Deal With 4 Publishers, Ends Agency Pricing

11 February, 2014 // 7 Comments

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 it is about to end in Canada as well. Late last week [Read More ...]

Penguin, EU Agree to Antitrust Settlement

25 July, 2013 // 0 Comments

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 negotiating their [Read More ...]

Judge Rules that Apple Conspired to Raise Prices on eBooks

10 July, 2013 // 14 Comments

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 to raise ebook prices, a decision [Read More ...]

EU Announces Settlement for eBook Price-Fixing Conspiracy

13 December, 2012 // 2 Comments

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 accepted a [Read More ...]

At $17.99, The Casual Vacancy eBook Not a Casual Purchase

26 September, 2012 // 8 Comments

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 far as many e-book fans are [Read More ...]

Further Developments in Agency Pricing, Google Books Lawsuits

17 September, 2012 // 2 Comments

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, [Read More ...]

Where Will E-Book Prices Go After the Settlement?

10 September, 2012 // 3 Comments

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 Justice’s [Read More ...]

Judge Denise Cote Approves Department of Justice Agency Pricing Settlement

6 September, 2012 // 4 Comments

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 by the Department of [Read More ...]

Let Me Draw You Some Pictures: Bob Kohn Files 5-page Comic Book Amicus Brief in DoJ Agency Pricing Anti-Trust Settlement Hearing

4 September, 2012 // 9 Comments

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 five pages for an amicus brief that everyone else [Read More ...]

Bought Agency Priced E-Books? $69 Million Settlement Pay-Out Is on the Way!

30 August, 2012 // 7 Comments

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 states (plus five [Read More ...]

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