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

  1027 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

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

  1030 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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  Plaintiffs in class-action agency pricing lawsuit contend direct proof not necessary to prove conspiracy

  1017 readersDoes proving a conspiracy require hard evidence? PaidContent reports that plaintiffs who have filed suit against Apple and the major publishers who implemented agency pricing say in their latest filing that indirect evidence of price jumps and other “plus factors” are all that is necessary, according to a 1939 Supreme Court precedent pertaining to movie

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  Judge stays price-fixing class-action suit against Hachette, HarperCollins

  984 readersPaidContent reports that a judge has stayed an e-book price-fixing class-action case against publishers Hachette and HarperCollins on the grounds that the publishers are close to settling with state governments over the matter, and the states’ lawsuits trump the class action. Apart from Macmillan and Penguin, who are fighting the suit, Simon & Schuster wasn’t

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  New US Lawsuit Accuses Apple of E-Book Price Fixing

  2105 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

  704 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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  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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  Steve Jobs biographer does not have to turn over unpublished material to agency pricing class-action plaintiffs

  624 readersIf you’re interested in any new tidbit of information about the legal matters surrounding the publishers’ and Apple’s implementation of agency pricing, here’s an interesting one for you. Publishers Weekly reports that Denise Cote, the judge in the class-action suit against Apple and the publishers, has ruled that Walter Isaacson, the the author of the

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  Steve Jobs biographer does not have to turn over unpublished material to agency pricing class-action plaintiffs

  437 readersIf you’re interested in any new tidbit of information about the legal matters surrounding the publishers’ and Apple’s implementation of agency pricing, here’s an interesting one for you. Publishers Weekly reports that Denise Cote, the judge in the class-action suit against Apple and the publishers, has ruled that Walter Isaacson, the the author of the

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  Court of Appeals kills any possibility of Google Books settlement

  1281 readers That’s because in a class action the plaintiffs have to be “representative” of the class they are supposed to represent.  If they are not then the class will not be certified and all the litigation can do is bind those plaintiffs who are actually present in the case. As reported by Publishers Weekly, a recent decision