Lawsuits, Investigations of Ebook Pricing Proliferate and Consolidate
Apple Inc. and the Big Six publishers are facing a widening array of investigations and lawsuits that allege they conspired to illegally fix ebook pricing in an effort to undermine Amazon’s competitive...
View ArticleUpdate: Justice Files Agency Pricing Suit; Three Publishers Settle
This article has been updated to include information on the state lawsuits and Canadian, publisher statements, and links to the proposed settlement and competitive impact statement, courtesy of...
View ArticleUpdate: Publishers Agree To $69 Million Settlement For Ebook Buyers
This story has been updated to indicate that the proposed settlement in the state-led ebook antitrust case, which three publishers agreed to on August 29, has been approved by the court. On September...
View ArticleOverDrive To Library Customers: Hachette is Raising E-Book Prices an Average...
UPDATE 5 (September 17, 2012): OverDrive Has Updated A Blog Post About Hachette Increase It says that the 220% increase that they told library partners about last week was miscalculated. The average...
View ArticleALA, LaRue Respond to Hachette Price Increase
The American Library Association (ALA) on Friday denounced Hachette Book Group’s decision to implement steep price increases on its back-catalog of ebooks sold to the library market. OverDrive broke...
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Ebooks 2013: New leasing models, cheaper devices, more content
It was a bit of a roller coaster for libraries and ebooks in 2012. Penguin was out—terminating its contract with OverDrive, the main supplier of ebooks to libraries, in February—and then the publisher...
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Macmillan Settles Ebook Price-Fixing Suit
Macmillan on Friday became the last of five major publishers to settle a lawsuit over the pricing of ebooks originally filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 15 states in April 2012. In an...
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Hachette to Sell Frontlist Ebook Titles to Libraries
Hachette has said it will review its ebook pricing scheme for libraries annually. Following two years of pilot tests with the New York Public Library (NYPL) and others, Hachette Book Group today...
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Hachette To Donate Audiobooks to National Library Service for the Blind and...
Hachette Book Group on May 29 announced plans to provide unabridged audiobook recordings for free to the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the...
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