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 antitrust violations...
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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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ABA Expands Anti-Amazon FUD Campaign
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...
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Video: Amazon, Threat or Menace?
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...
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Q: How Do You Tell When a Publishing Ind. Event is Only Hearing From One Side of a Discussion?
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...
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Amazon Books and the Robinson-Patman Act from an Antitrust Law Perspective
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...
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The Authors United Amicus Brief from an Antitrust Law Perspective
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...
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Quelle Surprise: ABA, B&N, And Other Mice Ask US Supreme Court to Bell the Cat
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...
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Why Authors United’s Antitrust Letter Against Amazon is Doomed
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...
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Authors United Pulls the Trigger
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...
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What The Authors Guild’s Mary Rasenberger Isn’t Saying About Amazon
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...
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RIAA and Other Groups Make Not-So-Empty Threats Over Cnet’s Download Site
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...
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Amazon Detractors Invited to Debate Its Monopolistic Bookselling on Twitter, But None Show Up
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...
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Book Industry Hates Its Biggest Customer, Collectively Calls on DoJ to Investigate Amazon
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...
Continue readingPreston Cuts His Strings, Vows the Show Against Amazon Will Continue
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...
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