The suit accuses six major publishers of establishing a cartel through its international trade association, STM, and using the peer review process to "unlawfully divert billions of taxpayer dollars every year from science to the Publisher Defendants.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild likes what it sees in the federal antitrust suit aiming to block the $2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-11-05 22:15:11 UTC ]
In separate motions this week, lawyers for both Amazon and the Big Five publishers asked a federal court to dismiss the latest iteration of a potential class-action price-fixing claim filed on behalf of indie booksellers involving print trade books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
A West Virginia news publisher has filed an antitrust suit against Google and Facebook, who dominate the online ad market Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2021-01-29 23:10:00 UTC ]
A top AT&T Inc. executive was questioned Thursday about past emails critical of content providers selling programming to online distributors as the government argued that the telecommunications giant should not be allowed to purchase Time Warner Inc. In the third week of an antitrust suit to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Remember that antitrust suit concerning publishers, ebooks and price rigging? The good news, at least if you bought one of the affected titles between April 2010 and May 2012, is that Amazon is sending some money your way. If the book you purchased... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department's antitrust suit over eBook price fixing has is as deeply befuddling as it is important to the future of publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
An antitrust suit may provide short-term price reductions on ebooks, but once the competition is flattened, Amazon is likely to resume its monopolistic ways. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]