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Authors United Declares Victory Over Amazon, Announces “Merger” With The Authors Guild

7 December, 2016 // 10 Comments

Remember the book publishing industry's astro-turfing group Authors United? The group has been keeping a low profile since their last failed attempt to get Amazon investigated for non-existent [Read More ...]

The German Antitrust Complaints Against Amazon, Audible Were Nothing More Than PR Stunts

8 March, 2016 // 2 Comments

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. As we learned [Read More ...]

ABA Expands Anti-Amazon FUD Campaign

4 March, 2016 // 1 Comment

The Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble. They're only made of clay, but the ABA's hostility towards Amazon is here to stay. The American Bookseller Association continued its anti-Amazon [Read More ...]

Video: Amazon, Threat or Menace?

29 January, 2016 // 8 Comments

Who's up for watching some propaganda? Earlier this week Authors United held a recitation where a bunch of Amazon haters got together and discussed just how terrible the retailer really is. You [Read More ...]

Q: How Do You Tell When a Publishing Ind. Event is Only Hearing From One Side of a Discussion?

20 January, 2016 // 8 Comments

Answer: You can tell when even The Bookseller is willing to come out and name the partisan group that is behind the event. A bunch of people are getting together in Washington DC next Wednesday [Read More ...]

Amazon Books and the Robinson-Patman Act from an Antitrust Law Perspective

18 December, 2015 // 2 Comments

by Randy J Morris Following my most recent antitrust article looking into the Authors United Amicus Brief (which you can read here), I was contacted for my thoughts concerning Amazon's new book store [Read More ...]

The Authors United Amicus Brief from an Antitrust Law Perspective

6 December, 2015 // 2 Comments

Apple has appealed the 2nd Circuit's decision in UNITED STATES v. APPLE. They've petitioned for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. In other words, the Supreme Court is still deciding [Read More ...]

Quelle Surprise: ABA, B&N, And Other Mice Ask US Supreme Court to Bell the Cat

3 December, 2015 // 4 Comments

Following last week's news that the USSC was accepting amicus briefs related to Apple's ebook antitrust appeal, the usual collection of Amazon-haters, has-beens, and the second-rate have spoken up in [Read More ...]

Why Authors United’s Antitrust Letter Against Amazon is Doomed

22 August, 2015 // 19 Comments

It's been two days since Authors United The Authors Guild formally sent its letter to the DoJ, asking for an antitrust investigation, and the pundits are starting to weigh in. Mathew Ingram has a [Read More ...]

Authors United Pulls the Trigger

21 August, 2015 // 6 Comments

Authors United has finally followed through on the promise they made last fall. The WSJ reported yesterday that AU has formally requested that the US Dept of Justice investigate Amazon for antitrust [Read More ...]

What The Authors Guild’s Mary Rasenberger Isn’t Saying About Amazon

31 July, 2015 // 13 Comments

No one at The Authors Guild or the American Bookseller's Association was able to find an hour in their busy schedules to publicly debate their recent calls for an antitrust investigation into [Read More ...]

RIAA and Other Groups Make Not-So-Empty Threats Over Cnet’s Download Site

30 July, 2015 // 0 Comments

When it comes to trade groups making public attacks on their Lillian du jour, there's Authors United and its small cabal of Amazon-haters with a noisy but ultimately meaningless letter to the [Read More ...]

Amazon Detractors Invited to Debate Its Monopolistic Bookselling on Twitter, But None Show Up

22 July, 2015 // 12 Comments

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come, as the line from the poem goes, and that almost sums up what we saw on Twitter today. Earlier today LitChat held a TwitterChat on the #LitChat [Read More ...]

Book Industry Hates Its Biggest Customer, Collectively Calls on DoJ to Investigate Amazon

13 July, 2015 // 30 Comments

Judging by the media circus that just came to town, something huge is about to happen in the book world. The book industry has kicked off a massive coordinated media campaign today. The target? [Read More ...]

Preston Cuts His Strings, Vows the Show Against Amazon Will Continue

20 November, 2014 // 5 Comments

With Amazon and Hachette having announced a new contract last week, the main event has come to an end, but that doesn't mean the show is over. The Bookseller is reporting that Doug Preston, founder [Read More ...]

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