Last week, GoodeReader posed a rhetorical question, essentially asking why so many individuals and organizations have voiced their opinions in favor of Apple and several publishers who have been accused of colluding on ebook prices in order to drive consumer traffic away from Amazon. While there is no doubt that some parties may just see a way to bring the online retailer down … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Weighs in On the DoJ Lawsuit, Predicting an Apple Victory
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Judge Denies Penguin’s Motion to Go to Arbitration
While the class action lawsuit against Apple, Penguin and Macmillan moves forward at an ever slowing pace, lawyers on all sides of the issue are ready to pull a few more tricks from up their sleeves. Penguin filed a motion late last month to request that consumers be required to go to arbitration in order to seek damages for allegedly overpaying for their ebooks. Penguin’s … [Read more...] about Judge Denies Penguin’s Motion to Go to Arbitration
Trial Date Set for Apple Anti-Trust Lawsuit
Consumers interested in finding out what will happen in the anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and two large publishing houses will have a little longer to wait. A judge on the case set the trial date at June 3, 2013. The case will be a bench trial, meaning there will be no jury hearing the evidence, only the judge on the case, U.S. District Judge Deborah Cote. In other timeline … [Read more...] about Trial Date Set for Apple Anti-Trust Lawsuit
Penguin, Macmillan Speak Out on Their Actions in DoJ Investigation
There has been an almost conspicuous lack of comments from the parties involved in the DoJ and class action lawsuits still pending against Apple and some of the Big Six publishers. Obviously, the parties involved cannot simply make outlandish statements while the investigations and court proceedings are still pending, leaving many to wonder what actually took place. Now, … [Read more...] about Penguin, Macmillan Speak Out on Their Actions in DoJ Investigation
Three of the Big Six Terminate Their Agreement with Apple
The antitrust proceedings against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers are in various stages of resolution. Three of the publishers — Simon&Schuster, Hachette, and HarperCollins —have agreed to settle with the Department of Justice and the various lawsuits brought about by different state courts in the US, while Apple, Penguin, and Macmillan are still going through with … [Read more...] about Three of the Big Six Terminate Their Agreement with Apple
Simon & Schuster Settles in Price Fixing Lawsuit
Three of the five publishers named in the class-action lawsuit and the Department of Justice investigation and suit against Apple and Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins have already settled out of court with the DoJ, but today the judge on the case took another of those three publishers out of the class-action suit. Simon & Schuster … [Read more...] about Simon & Schuster Settles in Price Fixing Lawsuit
There May Be No Class Action Suit Against Publishers in eBook Price Fixing Case
What began life as a class action lawsuit filed by Seattle-based law firm Hagen Bermans on behalf of consumers quickly became a Department of Justice investigation against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers. The investigation was to determine whether or not those involved had acted illegally when they instituted an “agency pricing” model for ebook sales to … [Read more...] about There May Be No Class Action Suit Against Publishers in eBook Price Fixing Case
Apple Wants Its Day in Court
Despite having three of its co-defendants in the price fixing lawsuit raised by the Department of Justice take the deal and run, Apple wants to have a court decide the outcome of the allegations against it for price fixing. In the words of one lawyer for the computer giant, it wants to see the decision made on the merits of the case. "Our basic view is that we would like the … [Read more...] about Apple Wants Its Day in Court
Penguin Refuses to Settle in Dept of Justice Lawsuit
In the investigation launched by the Department of Justice against Apple, Inc and five large publishing houses for alleged price-fixing in order to severely wound Amazon.com, the publishers have successfully been divided as to the outcome. The lawsuit, officially filed yesterday by the DoJ, only names Apple and two of the accused publishers, as the remaining three took the … [Read more...] about Penguin Refuses to Settle in Dept of Justice Lawsuit
Big Six Publishers Not Renewing Contracts with Amazon?
Paul Biba at Teleread wrote a fairly concise breakdown of an article that appeared in Salon recently which outlined some of Amazon’s current woes. Oddly enough, as Biba points out, two key issues were very nearly buried in among the pages of the article. The first issue involves the grant money that Amazon is pouring into small independent publishers, apparently to the tune … [Read more...] about Big Six Publishers Not Renewing Contracts with Amazon?