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  Justice Department publisher anti-trust investigation proceeds toward settlement

  894 readersReuters has a report from a couple of anonymous tipsters close to the Justice Department talks with Apple and the major publishers regarding the antitrust investigation into agency pricing. According to Reuters’s sources, the negotiations may be within weeks of reaching a settlement. The settlement is expected to eliminate Apple’s “most favored nation” status, which currently

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  It’s the Conspiracy, Stupid!

  558 readersA lot of “ink” will be spilled in the days and weeks ahead about the Department of Justice lawsuit against the large New York-based publishers. Too much of the ink will be focused on pricing, authors, Amazon and other abstractions. If you read the complaint from the DOJ you’ll see that the issue is not agency pricing, or

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  Department of Justice may sue Apple tomorrow, anonymous sources say

  1138 readersThe anonymous sources have been awfully talkative about the Justice Department vs. publishers affair, haven’t they? The latest word, by way of Reuters, is that the Department of Justice might settle with some publishers and file suit against Apple as early as…tomorrow (Wednesday). The Justice Department, publishers, and Apple either could not be reached or

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  DOJ May Be Close To Settlement With Apple Over eBook Pricing

  1155 readersThe Justice Department is reportedly getting close to a settlement with Apple and the “big six” publishers. Last month, the government agency brought charges against the iPad maker, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Pearson, Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins Publishers, alleging collusion in eBook pricing. Reuters has more details about the case: “While negotiations are still fluid, the settlement is expected to

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  Does Agency Pricing Lead to Higher Book Prices?

  1141 readersAccording to a March 9 story in the Wall Street Journal, The U.S. Department of Justice is considering suing Apple and five large US publishers for allegedly colluding to raise the price of ebooks. At the heart of the issue, I suspect, is concern over the agency pricing model. Agency pricing allows the publisher (or the

• Shatzkin Urges DoJ to Reconsider Discounting Rules in Letter

  926 readersIn the past weeks and until June 25, the Department of Justice will read and publish letters from anyone regarding its settlement with three large U.S. publishers for its e-book price-fixing lawsuit. Earlier in May, Simon Lipskar of Writers House and the Association of Authors’ Representatives wrote a letter accusing the Justice Department of a “bizarre

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  New details come to light in agency pricing class-action lawsuit

  836 readersThe hits just keep on coming. On PaidContent, Laura Hazard Owen writes about a new filing in a class-action lawsuit against the agency pricing publishers that reveals some previously redacted evidence in the case shedding light on the agency pricing negotiations. This is the suit in which a number of states (now up to 31

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  Publishers and Apple sued in Canada for price fixing

  694 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

• Response to DoJ ‘Bizarre Misunderstanding’ of E-Book Business from AAR

  766 readers An open letter regarding the Justice Department’s e-book price-fixing lawsuit and settlement to the DoJ’s lead prosecutor John Read from Simon Lipskar, president of Writers House, a New York-based literary agency and digital-rights committee member of the AAR, a trade association for literary agents (he is also a member of the Digital Book World Conference

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  Kindle news: U.S. Justice Dept calls Apple “Ringmaster” in e-book price-fixing. Why Android is Winning the Tablet Wars. New NBC-Universal PRIME video deals. The Big Deal (500 books) is back.

  603 readers Apple being seen as instigator of eBook price-fixing attempts In addition to the TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) report, which sources the NY Times article which may not be accessible to some near the end of any month, here are the recent articles on the e-book pricing wars going back a year and through 'today' for