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  Finkelstein Thompson Files Class Action Suit Against Apple

  1738 readersConsumer rights and antitrust law firm Finkelstein Thompson has filed a class action complaint in a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Apple and the “big six” book publishers alleging a conspiracy to fix eBook prices. This is the second class action complaint to hit these companies this month. The publishers

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  Amended complaint filed in agency pricing lawsuit

  1064 readersThe law firm handling the consolidated class-action lawsuits against publishers over agency pricing filed an amended complaint on January 20th. This complaint, filed against the “Agency Five” excluding Random House, goes into more detail about the alleged pricing conspiracy to force Amazon to raise prices, costing consumers millions of dollars. The complaint details how Hachette

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  Publishers and Apple sued in Canada for price fixing

  705 readersFrom Shelf Awareness: Close on the heels of last week’s U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit, a Vancouver law firm has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court, alleging that Apple and a number of publishers engaged in a “conspiracy” to lessen competition and “fix, maintain, increase or control the prices of e-books.” The

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  Class action suit filed against Apple and publishers for price fixing under the agency model

  1659 readers The following is the full press release issued by the law firm in this important lawsuit.  As a former corporate lawyer who used to teach antitrust law to my fellow employees, I must say that I’m surprised that it took so long for someone to do this.  On its face, the current arrangement seems to

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  Dept. Of Justice Investigates eBook Business

  866 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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  New US Lawsuit Accuses Apple of E-Book Price Fixing

  2148 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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  Justice Dept. Investigating Apple & “Big Six” On eBook Pricing

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

  1794 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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  NY Federal Judge stays e-book class action case against Hachette and HarperCollins

  972 readers paidContent's Jeff John Roberts reports that New York Federal Justice Denise Cote has stayed the class action suit against HarperCollins and Hachette "on the grounds that the publishers are close to a consumer restitution settlement with state governments." The state governments' deal trumps the consumer class action, he explains. The lead class-action lawyer, Steve Berman said,

• New Details Come to Light as More States Pile on to Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers

  1326 readers New details have emerged in the e-book price-fixing lawsuit as more U.S. states join the lawsuit. paidContent.org has the breakdown (As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed): New York, the District of Columbia and fifteen other states have joined the e-book pricing class action suit against Apple, Macmillan