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What The Authors Guild’s Mary Rasenberger Isn’t Saying About Amazon
No one at The Authors Guild or the American Bookseller's Association was able to find an hour in their busy schedules to publicly debate their recent calls for an antitrust investigation into Amazon's...
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Apple to Appeal Its eBook Price-Fixing Case to the Supreme Court
Despite having lost at every stage, Apple is not willing to give up on the ebook antitrust lawsuit it lost in 2013. Fortune reports that Apple will be filing an appeal to the Supreme Court. On...
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German Publishers Call for Antitrust Investigation Into Audible
Amazon's bid to launch a streaming audiobook service in Germany has run afoul of book publishers. Heise and Spiegel report that Boersenverein, the German book industry trade group, has filed a...
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Motions for Summary Judgment Filed in eBook Price-Fixing Lawsuit
Apple's appeal to the US Supreme Court is drawing all the press coverage but that's not the only ebook antitrust suit that Apple is embroiled in. In late 2013 and early 2014 a trio of ebook retailers...
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Apple is Its Own Worst Enemy, Antitrust Monitor Says in Report
Apple's antitrust compliance program has improved, but the company continues to impede a court-appointed monitor overseeing the program, acting as "its own worst enemy," the monitor told a federal...
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DoJ Says Apple Antitrust Watchdog is No Longer Required
The US Department of Justice has determined that Apple has made significant improvements to its antitrust compliance program and that a court-appointed monitor's term does not need extended, according...
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Let the Scheming Commence: Apple’s Antitrust Monitorship is Ending
US District Judge Denise Cote agreed on Tuesday to end the term of a court-appointed monitor assigned to review Apple's antitrust compliance program, despite the difficult environment the monitor...
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Apple Asks US Supreme Court to Overturn eBook Antitrust Decision
Apple has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court decision that found the iPad maker conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices. Apple asked the high court on Wednesday...
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Amazon Books, Antitrust Law, ETC
The American Bookseller Association continued its campaign of viewing Amazon with alarm and suspicion this week. ABA CEO Oren Teicher had a few choice words to say about Amazon and its new retail store...
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US Supreme Court Extends DoJ Deadline in Apple Antitrust Case
Apple's inevitable victory over the inimicable US Department of Justice has been put on hold. An update to the US Supreme Court website reveals that the USSC has extended the filing deadline for all...
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Quelle Surprise: ABA, B&N, And Other Mice Ask US Supreme Court to Bell the Cat
Following last week's news that the USSC was accepting amicus briefs related to Apple's ebook antitrust appeal, the usual collection of Amazon-haters, has-beens, and the second-rate have spoken up in...
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The Authors United Amicus Brief from an Antitrust Law Perspective
Apple has appealed the 2nd Circuit's decision in UNITED STATES v. APPLE. They've petitioned for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. In other words, the Supreme Court is still deciding...
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Amazon Books and the Robinson-Patman Act from an Antitrust Law Perspective
by Randy J Morris Following my most recent antitrust article looking into the Authors United Amicus Brief (which you can read here), I was contacted for my thoughts concerning Amazon's new book store...
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DoJ Asks Supreme Court to Deny Apple’s Appeal
The US Dept of Justice filed its brief in response to Apple's Supreme Court appeal last week. Arguing that the July 2013 antitrust ruling that concluded Apple was "a member of a horizontal...
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Apple’s Last Chance to Win eBook Conspiracy Case Lies with Securing Supreme...
Despite having the world’s most popular smartphone model, and for a while a near monopoly on the tablet market, Apple has not been able make much of a dent in either mobile advertising or ebook sales....
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Judge Cote Dismisses Part of eBook Retailers’ Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers
Apple has scored a minor victory in its ongoing legal battles over the 2010 conspiracy to raise and fix ebook prices. A little over a month ago Judge Denise Cote issued a summary judgement in the...
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US Appeals Court Upholds Apple eBook Settlement
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Apple's $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise ebook prices. The 2nd US Circuit Court of...
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Apple is On the Hook for the $450m Settlement after Supreme Court Rejects...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Apple Inc's challenge to an appellate court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, meaning it will have to pay $450...
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The German Antitrust Complaints Against Amazon, Audible Were Nothing More...
Over the past couple years a couple antitrust complaints have been made against Amazon by publishers in Germany, but aside from the initial press splash little has been reported since. As we learned in...
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Donald Trump: Amazon has “a Huge Antitrust Problem”
Now that Trump is the presumptive GOP candidate for president, some pundits have said that he would tone down his rhetoric and start wooing the mainstream voters he had driven over into the Democrat's...
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