Amazon May Be Close to a Deal in EU Case Amazon is no stranger to issues surrounding ebook prices. Stateside, Amazon was… Mercy Pilkington23 March 2017No comments2 minute read
Amazon Backs Down to Avoid EU Punishment It’s a strange day for book retailing and publishing, as readers and… Mercy Pilkington25 January 2017One comment2 minute read
Amazon Attempts to Settle EU Antitrust Investigation When words like Amazon and antitrust get bandied about in the same… Mercy Pilkington6 October 20162 comments2 minute read
More Speculation on the Final Bill for Apple’s Price Fixing Problems News was announced yesterday from the lawyers for the plaintiffs in one… Mercy Pilkington17 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Forbes: Amazon Dispute Not About Money Despite the hordes of critics who have verbally assaulted Amazon for its… Mercy Pilkington10 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Big Five Back in Court over eBook Pricing When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against… Mercy Pilkington6 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Apple Settles Out of Court in $840M Lawsuit In the ongoing and tension-filled proceedings against Apple for its role in… Mercy Pilkington17 June 2014One comment2 minute read
Amazon, Hachette Battle Continues as Pre-Order Buttons Are Removed First publishers hate Amazon, then they want legal action to require them… Mercy Pilkington24 May 2014One comment2 minute read
Consumer Protection Attorneys File Anti-Trust Suit Against Google News came out this week that Hagens Berman, the same Seattle-based law… Mercy Pilkington2 May 2014One comment1 minute read
Apple Requests Stay in Proceedings After a lengthy court battle over ebook price fixing and collusion with… Mercy Pilkington8 April 2014One comment2 minute read
New Plaintiffs Come on Board Against Apple for eBook Price Fixing Apple is still waiting for the final decision from Judge Denise Cote… Mercy Pilkington28 March 2014One comment1 minute read
The Big Five Settled Out of Court and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt The wheels of justice do, indeed, turn slowly. Turtles stampeding through peanut… Mercy Pilkington25 March 2014One comment2 minute read
Canada Institutes Its Own eBook Terms with Publishers Following the court drama of the Department of Justice investigation of five… Mercy Pilkington7 February 20142 comments2 minute read
New $840M Claim Against Apple for eBook Price Fixing A US judge is still in the process of handling the DOJ… Mercy Pilkington2 February 2014No comments1 minute read
Quebec’s Book Price Fixing Law Can Ruin the Book Economy The government of Quebec has gone forward with a law that was… Mercy Pilkington11 December 20135 comments2 minute read
Efforts to Intervene in Disbursement of Refunds in DOJ, Publisher Suit Late last week, Judge Denise Cote, the judge who has presided over… Mercy Pilkington10 December 20132 comments2 minute read
Data Reveals How Much Consumers Overspent Thanks to eBook Price Fixing In all of the coverage of did-they-or-didn’t-they aspect to the Apple ebook… Mercy Pilkington25 October 2013One comment2 minute read
Cote Details Limits of Apple’s Relationships with Publishers In a seventeen page document from US Judge Denise Cote filed on… Mercy Pilkington7 September 2013One comment1 minute read
Kindle Announces Potential Refunds to Customers In a mass email to its customers yesterday, Amazon announced some good… Mercy Pilkington1 September 2013No comments2 minute read
Quebec Considers Move towards Uniform Book Prices In what is sure to become a hotly contested issue, the government… Mercy Pilkington19 August 2013No comments2 minute read
The eBook Lawsuits Are Over…Where’s My Money? As is the case in lawsuits involving major corporations having to pay… Mercy Pilkington17 August 2013One comment2 minute read
Apple’s Court Date for Damages Is May 2104 Consumers who are expecting some payouts as a result of the Department… Mercy Pilkington16 August 2013One comment2 minute read
Apple’s Troubles with DOJ Far from Over Sometimes, it’s just not enough to win, at least in the eyes… Mercy Pilkington5 August 20133 comments2 minute read
