Sentences with phrase «on fixing ebook prices»

You might have heard of the recent Justice Department settlement with the big six publishers on fixing eBook prices.

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On the other hand, ebooks have to be fix in price for all book sellers because * drum roll * they are books.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) accused Apple and five publishers of ebook price fixing, and since then, 33 states have sued Apple on behalf of their consumers.

On Thursday, France's Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, announced that Kindle Unlimited (KU) and other unlimited ebook subscription services are illegal in France because they violate the country's fixed book price law.

Before Amazon emerged, there were six major publishing houses, each with several imprints; Amazon indirectly had a significant impact on their finances through the ebook price fixing investigation that resulted in settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars from the publishers alone.

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The article hastened to point out that the Big Six and Apple are being investigated on two continents for reports of ebook price fixing in an effort to oust bookselling giant Amazon, a purported arrangement that, if true, backfired in a monumental way.

The entire case stemmed from a government probe on Apple price fixing the landscape of ebooks when it first launched the iBooks service.

Certain digital content is distributed under an agency pricing model in which the publishers set fixed prices for eBooks and NOOK receives a fixed commission on content sold through the eBookstore.

Apple was criticized for not taking the judge's ruling lying down when it came time to a $ 200 + million verdict against it in the DOJ ebook pricing fixing lawsuit, despite the fact that the amount was less than one percent of its cash on hand.

That ruling found that they had essentially instigated illegal price fixing measures in their efforts to work with the Big Five publishers to lessen Amazon's stronghold on the ebook market.

After countless hours of legal battle, Macmillan has finally agreed upon a settlement that appeased Judge Denise Cote and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that alleged five of the Big Six publishers conspired with Apple to fix the prices on ebooks sold through online retailers.

Earlier in the week the Justice Department sued 6 major publishers and Apple in a price fixing scandal on ebooks.

As part of the settlement terms in several states» Attorneys General lawsuits against some of the Big Six publishers over alleged ebook price fixing, Amazon customers received some welcome news today: they would be receiving account credits on eligible purchases.

While the US courts hear arguments about alleged price fixing and anti-trust issues between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers» effort to reduce Amazon's hold on the ebook industry, a similar investigation has been going on in the EU over the same accusations.

In some positive news for publishers Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, who have been dealing with the shift in the ebook market and the litigation settlements in the Apple price fixing case brought on by the Department of Justice, the publishers announced a partnership with Worldreader to bring their titles to... [Read more...]

However, Judge Cote accepted the terms based on the assumption that the market can not engage in illegal price fixing and justify it by saying it was done in order to return some semblance of balance to the ebook market.

Statement by Joaquin Almunia, vice president of European Commission responsible for competition policy, on settlement of eBook price - fixing lawsuit with Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

Slipping on a Few Antitrust Banana Peels — Scrivener's Error with some deep legal napery on the DOJ's ebook price fixing investigation.

The case hinges on whether Apple's suggested move to an agency model - in which the publishers set the ebook prices, and Apple and other retailers take a cut - facilitated a conspiracy to fix prices unfairly high.

Late on Tuesday, the Justice Department filed its response to Apple's (s aapl) appeal of a 2013 price - fixing verdict that found the iPhone maker had brokered a conspiracy among book publishers to fix the price of ebooks.

Apple appears to face an uphill battle as it goes to trial Monday in New York on ebook price fixing charges brought by the U.S. government.

I've felt for a long time that what authors (agents) should work toward is a fixed amount - per - copy - sold as an ebook royalty and just get out of the percentages business on ebooks, which, as we know, can have their prices change on a frequent basis.

When Apple goes before a federal appeals court on Dec. 15, trying to overturn the ebooks price - fixing judgment the Justice Department won against it in July 2013, there will be an elephant in the room.

Apple goes on trial today as the last man standing against charges of ebook price fixing brought by the US government.

Now, I could go on and on about agency pricing, price fixing, terms like «paperback ebook pricing» and «hardcover ebook pricing» and so on....

In May, as it negotiated a new contract with Hachette Book Group (a settling defendant in the ebooks price - fixing case), Amazon pulled the preorder buttons on most Hachette titles, stopped recommending its authors» works, and burdened Hachette's books with artificial delivery delays.

Amazon's ebook marketshare was about 90 % when the Obama administration DOJ intervened to go after, would you believe, Apple, which at the time of its alleged price - fixing had 0 % of the ebook market and was selling ebooks that could only be read on pricey devices.

The German ebook market is on a rising trend and is popular with traditional publishers in particular as the country still has a fixed book price agreement which means ebook prices are generally considerably higher there than in the US and UK.

Apple will fight the ebook price fixing ruling, the company has said today, promising to appeal the court's decision and accusing Amazon of having a «monopolistic grip on the publishing industry.»

As the federal government presses its antitrust case against Apple (s aapl), Amazon (s amzn) is taking on a central role in determining whether a court will conclude that the iPad maker illegally colluded with five publishers to fix the price of ebooks.

Hot on its heels will be Google Books and Google eBooks, which delayed their launch in order to adapt to Spain's fixed - price book law.

In a recently released document filed with the court on Wednesday, Apple's counsel addressed the charges by claiming the DOJ has its story backwards — Apple wasn't working with publishers to fix eBook prices, it was breaking Amazon's «monopolistic grip» on the eBook market and the publishing industry.