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…
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…
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…
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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