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The DOJ's Ebook Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Apple and the "Agency Five": An Overview
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Unquestionably, the big publishing news of the week was the US Department of Justice's lawsuit filing against Apple and five major book publishers--Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon and Schuster--for alleged ebook price fixing.
At the root of the dispute: the agency pricing model for ebooks, which the publishers adopted in 2010.
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