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  Justice Dept. Investigating Apple & “Big Six” On eBook Pricing

  701 readersThe Justice Department may sue Apple, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Pearson, Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins Publishers, claiming collusion in eBook pricing. Reuters has more: “The suit brought on behalf of e-book customers, alleges Apple and the publishers colluded to shift e-book pricing from a wholesale method, where retailers pay for the product and charge what they like, to agency

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  Apple and the Big Six publishers face another class action price-fixing lawsuit

  1024 readersAnother class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple and the “big 6” publishers over agency pricing. Unlike the other lawsuit earlier this month, this one also includes Random House among the defendants. But like that other suit, it alleges that Apple and the publishers colluded on an e-book price-fixing scheme. The law firm filing

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  HP TouchPad Reading, Free eBooks & PDF Conversion: Top eBook Stories of the Week

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  New US Lawsuit Accuses Apple of E-Book Price Fixing

  2102 readersBy Edward Nawotka First, the European Union, now the United States… Hagens Berman, a consumer rights class-action law firm, today announced it has filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit claiming that Apple Inc. is guilty of illegal price fixing related to the Agency Model for pricing e-books. HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin and S&S are also named in the

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  SECOND Class Action Suit Against Apple, this time w/ the Big6. Apple accused of altering 2nd photo in Samsung suit.

  1617 readers "Finkelstein Thompson Files Class Action Suit Against Apple Teleread's Chris Meadows points to the ebooknewser story today on the new lawsuit that, in this 2nd case, also includes Random House. Finkelstein Thompson, a consumer rights and antitrust law firm, filed the new class action complaint in New York against Apple and the Big6 book publishers, alleging

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  Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple & Five Publishers Over eBook Pricing

  1336 readersToday consumer rights firm Hagens Berman filed a class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple and five of the “big six” publishers. The suit alleges that Apple, HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group, and Simon & Schuster “colluded to increase prices for popular e-book titles

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  Consumer payout in e-book pricing class-action still some distance away

  730 readersThe Justice Department suit against the publishers and Apple for introducing agency pricing is not seeking damages—just a change in the way publishers price. However, the competing class-action lawsuits filed by various law firms and a number of state attorney generals are seeking damages, and therein lies a bit of a snarl-up. PaidContent has an

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  Dept. Of Justice Investigates eBook Business

  853 readersFollowing an investigation in Europe, the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the eBook industry. The investigations will look at if Apple and publishers are breaking any antitrust laws when pricing eBooks. The Wall Street Journal has more: “At a congressional hearing, Sharis Pozen, the Justice Department’s acting antitrust chief, said: ‘We are also

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  Status of price-fixing case against Apple and major publishers

  1803 readers Paid Content has an excellent summary of the status of the price-fixing lawsuits: Back in August, a class action lawsuit was filed against five major book publishers and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), accusing them of colluding to jack up the price of e-books in an effort to wrest back pricing power from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). The suit