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Amazon to issue e-book refunds per antitrust settlement

Amazon to issue e-book refunds per antitrust settlement
  • Posted October 15, 2012, 9:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • If you’ve purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book within the past couple of years, you might be eligible to receive a credit as part of an antitrust settlement reached in April. Yes, this is the same settlement that was reached between…

Book publishers reach $69M settlement in e-book price-fixing case

Book publishers reach $69M settlement in e-book price-fixing case
  • Posted August 31, 2012, 9:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Three book publishers have agreed to an anti-trust settlement that will see them collectively pay more than $69 million in order to resolve charges that they collaborated with Apple to raise the prices of digitally-distributed books. Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins…

Apple calls e-book settlement "unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented"

Apple calls e-book settlement "unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented"
  • Posted August 16, 2012, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • In a statement issued yesterday, Apple lambasted the Department of Justice over supporting a government-proposed settlement intended to resolve possible e-book price-fixing practices. The company criticized the settlement as "fundamentally unfair, unlawful and unprecedented", accusing the DOJ of attempting to…

T-Mobile, Vodafone and KPN raided in Dutch price-fixing probe

T-Mobile, Vodafone and KPN raided in Dutch price-fixing probe
  • Posted December 7, 2011, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • The Dutch Competition Authority (NMA) raided the offices of mobile carriers KPN, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile on Tuesday as part of a probe into allegations of "cartel" practices, including sharing of market information and price fixing relating to the…

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