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

7 December, 20169 June, 2018Amazon, The Authors Guild10 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...

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

8 March, 201627 July, 2016Amazon, Antitrust, Conferences & Trade shows, Publishing2 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...

ABA Expands Anti-Amazon FUD Campaign

4 March, 20168 January, 2019ABA, Amazon, PublishingOne 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...

Video: Amazon, Threat or Menace?

29 January, 201627 July, 2016Amazon, Publishing8 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...

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

20 January, 201627 July, 2016Amazon, Conferences & Trade shows, Publishing8 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...

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

18 December, 201526 September, 2016ABA, Amazon, Antitrust, Bookstore, Publishing3 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...

The Authors United Amicus Brief from an Antitrust Law Perspective

6 December, 20159 June, 2018Antitrust, Apple, Publishing, The Authors Guild3 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...

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

3 December, 20159 June, 2018Antitrust, Appeal, Apple, Publishing, The Authors Guild4 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...

Why Authors United’s Antitrust Letter Against Amazon is Doomed

22 August, 20159 June, 2018Amazon, Editorials, Publishing, The Authors Guild19 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...

Authors United Pulls the Trigger

21 August, 201516 November, 2019Amazon, Publishing, The Authors Guild6 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...

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

31 July, 201528 May, 2020ABA, Amazon, Antitrust, DeBunking, Publishing, The Authors Guild13 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...

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

30 July, 201527 July, 2016Intellectual Property, Piracy, PublishingLeave a comment

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...