ResearchAmazon’s disruptive timing
The synchronous timing of the court’s approval of the settlement agreement between the government and a group of publishers in the e-book price-fixing case, and the Amazon’s news conference to unveil… Read more »
{"source":"http:\/\/search.gigaom.com\/tag\/price-fixing\/wijax\/383af13036138b805db0da550b1f5914","varname":"wijax_a722c6cc21a049a7cabdef24a994a314","title_element":"h2","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Ch2%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fh2%3E"}
The synchronous timing of the court’s approval of the settlement agreement between the government and a group of publishers in the e-book price-fixing case, and the Amazon’s news conference to unveil… Read more »
State governments, which are suing publishers and Apple for fixing e-book prices, have finally said just how much each consumer will get in a proposed $69 million settlement. We have all… Read more »
Apropos my Weekly Update this week on the Justice Department’s price-fixing case against Apple and two leading publishers, the department has now released its formal response to the public comments on… Read more »
The thrust of the Justice Department’s two recent antitrust investigations is the same in each: to see whether incumbent media providers are abusing their dominant positions within traditional distribution chains to… Read more »
Thirty states have bagged $52 million from publishers as part of a price fixing investigation involving Apple. More money is on the way. While state leaders say the money is for… Read more »
New court filings related to an alleged conspiracy between Apple and publishers over e-book prices show the matter may not be resolved until 2014. The filings underscore how the legal system… Read more »
The Department of Justice’s trial against Apple, Penguin and Macmillan, who are accused of colluding to fix prices on e-books, will take place in a little under a year, on June… Read more »
In a brief filed with the Department of Justice this morning, Barnes & Noble says the proposed e-book pricing settlement “represents an unprecedented effort” to become “a regulator of a nascent… Read more »
In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote rejected requests by Apple (s aapl) and book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing. Read more »
What’s happening in the e-book market is not fundamentally different from what happened in the music industry. The retail price of recorded music has plunged thanks to digital technology and the… Read more »