E-Book Industry Faces Global Antitrust Scrutiny
As e-books and e-book-reader sales soar this holiday season, antitrust investigations and lawsuits may influence how the industry develops in the future. Earlier this year private plaintiffs filed suit against Apple and several leading publishers, alleging that publishers conspired to raise the price of e-books from the $ 9.99 standard that Amazon had set when it introduced the Kindle. A different group of plaintiffs claimed that Amazon...
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