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• ePublishing Week in Brief – August 27th to 31st, 2012

  1013 readersePublishing Week in Brief – August 27th to 31st, 2012 US ebook customers to receive compensation in price-fixing lawsuit Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster agree to pay $69m settlement of claims they had colluded over ebook prices US ebook customers will receive compensation from a settlement of claims against Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Photograph: dbphots/Alamy Readers in the United

• Apple E-Book Buyers Get Notice for Price-Fixing Settlement Credits

  207 readers Following Amazon’s letter over the weekend notifying some of its customers that they were in line for a small piece of a $69 million e-book price-fixing settlement between Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster and 49 U.S. states, Apple has sent out letters of its own. Letter: Benefits from an Attorney General E-books Settlement Fund Para una notificación

• Apple E-Book Buyers Get Notice for Price-Fixing Settlement Credits

  444 readers Following Amazon’s letter over the weekend notifying some of its customers that they were in line for a small piece of a $69 million e-book price-fixing settlement between Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster and 49 U.S. states, Apple has sent out letters of its own. Letter: Benefits from an Attorney General E-books Settlement Fund Para una notificación

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  How Will Amazon Respond To Lack Of Agency Pricing?

  683 readersHarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster have settled with the Justice Department  after being sued over alleged eBook price fixing. Apple and Macmillan are standing their ground  and going to court over the issue. With agency pricing on the way out, people in the publishing world are speculating about what this means for Amazon. The Wall

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  And then there was Apple… The Department of Justice announces that they have settled with Macmillan, leaving one last litigate in e-book pricing case

  852 readersThe U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with Macmillan in the e-book case where major book publishers and Apple were "accused of conspired to eliminate retail price competition." All the publishers – Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster, and now Macmillan have settled with the

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  Amazon Begins Discounting HarperCollins E-Books

  236 readers Just four days after Judge Denise Cote approved the settlement between the Department of Justice and Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, Amazon, the leading U.S. bookseller has begun to discount HarperCollins e-book titles. Amazon has confirmed to PaidContent, which first reported the story, that it is indeed discounting HarperCollins e-books titles. The infamous “this price

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  Macmillan, DOJ: What Does It Mean for Everybody Else?

  70 readers Late last week, Macmillan and the U.S. Department of Justice agreed on a settlement to resolve the issue of alleged collusion and ebook price-fixing between Macmillan, four other U.S. publishers and Apple.   The settlement was basically the same as those signed by HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin and Simon & Schuster except for two key differences: 1. It allows

• Did the DOJ Settlement Greatly Benefit Publishers and Keep E-Book Prices High?

  570 readers The settlement recently approved by the Southern District Court in Manhattan between the Department of Justice and HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster may have served to benefit the publishers and to keep e-book prices relatively high for consumers, speculates industry consultant (and DBW partner) Mike Shatzkin. When new prices for HarperCollins e-books started showing up

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  Mystery in the EU E-Book Price-Fixing Settlement

  523 readers Four major publishers and Apple have agreed to a settlement with the European Commission over the issue of e-book price-fixing. It’s much like the settlement Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster entered into with the Justice Department, so we won’t go into details. There is a mystery here, though: Macmillan and Apple are part of this settlement

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  DOJ May Be Close To Settlement With Apple Over eBook Pricing

  1152 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