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<title>Independent booksellers sue Amazon, publishers for monopoly</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/21/suit.blames.drm.for.lack.of.ability.to.enter.the.market/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1361489645_fictionaddiction-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Independent booksellers The Book House, Posman Books, and Fiction Addiction are suing Amazon and the "Big Six" publishers consisting of Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House, and Simon &amp; Schuster. The suit accuses the seven companies of monopolizing the e-book market by selling titles encumbered by draconian digital rights management, and says that the companies have a seeming ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple now sole party fighting US DoJ e-book lawsuit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/08/macmillan.reaches.settlement.with.government/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1355415525_ibooks3-ipad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice has settled with publisher Macmillan in a long-running e-book price-fixing lawsuit, says AllThingsD.  "Under the proposed settlement agreement, Macmillan will immediately lift restrictions it has imposed on discounting and other promotions by e-book retailers and will be prohibited until December 2014 from entering into new agreements with similar restrictions," a DoJ ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Penguin files settlement to end e-book price fixing suit</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/18/if.settlement.approved.only.macmillan.and.apple.left.standing/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1355879451_ebookipad-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The United States Department of Justice confirmed today that the Penguin group has made a settlement offer in New York District Court to end its ongoing e-book price-fixing antitrust investigation. If accepted by the Department of Justice and the judge, only Apple and Macmillan will remain as defendants in the suit. Under the agreement's terms, Penguin must cease doing business with any e-book sel...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EU ready to accept deal with Apple, book publishers</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/06/deal.would.have.amazon.going.back.to.original.ebook.prices/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-books2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Regulators with the European Union are prepared to accept a proposal by Apple and four publishers to end an antitrust investigation into ebook pricing, Reuters sources say.  Under the terms of the arrangement, Apple and the publishers would let retailers set their own prices and discounts for at least two years.  The deal would also suspend "most-favored nation" contracts for at least five years...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Penguin, Macmillan deny e-book price-fixing conspiracy</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/31/publishers.call.federal.complaint.full.of.innuendo/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/DOJ-Apple-ebook-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Book publishers Penguin and Macmillan are denying accusations of a conspiracy with Apple to fix the price of e-books, saying the claims are based on ėlittle circumstantial evidence.î According to the New York Times, the two companies said that the US government piled ėinnuendo on top of innuendoî in the federal complaint, with shots also fired at Amazon by saying the government ėsides with a monop...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple says decision to face DOJ trial voluntary, talks to EU</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-tvad7.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple on Wednesday stated that its confronting a Department of Justice lawsuit over e-book pricing was deliberate.  Attorney Daniel Floyd told Judge Denise Cote that Apple believed the lawsuit was "not an appropriate case" and wanted to prove itself in court.  The company wanted this to be "decided on the merits," Reuters heard while observing Floyd at a hearing....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple rebuffs DOJ e-book suit, says Amazon was monopoly</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-tvad7.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple after silence through the past two days responded Thursday to the Department of Justice lawsuit over alleged e-book pricing collusion.  Spokesman Tom Neumayr flatly rejected the accusations when asked for comment by AllThingsD, recapping the company's objections to the European Union that the iBookstore was beneficial as it was created.  The iPad-focused store kept Amazon from having excessi...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Macmillan: DOJ 'too onerous,' Amazon would regain monopoly</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/11/macmillan.ceo.insists.company.innocent/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-books2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Macmillan CEO John Sargent in an open letter blasted the Department of Justice for its e-book antitrust lawsuit.  He insisted that his publishing company had "done no wrong" and that he, alone, had Macmillan switch to an agency model that hiked e-book prices.  Revealing more than the DOJ had mentioned itself while confirming rumors, he said talks had broken down after "months" and that the DOJ's t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EU willing to settle with e-book publishers over pricing</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/12/eu.deal.may.avoid.penalty.over.apple.book.pricing/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/ipad2-tvad7.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia in comments Monday said his agency was willing to settle with publishers over an e-book price fixing investigation.  He was willing to put an end to possible penalties for Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Penguin, Simon &amp; Schuster, and Macmillan if they addressed "all our objections [at the EC]" over the group allegedly raising prices unfairly, Reute...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>DOJ preps antitrust lawsuit versus Apple, e-book publishers</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/07/doj.warns.apple.must.change.ibookstore.rules/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/ipad2-tvad7.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice is readying an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and publishers unless they change their pricing strategy for e-books, leaks revealed Wednesday night.  Agency officials reportedly slipped to the Wall Street Journal that both the iPad designer as well as Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon &amp; Schuster would face legal action for possibly having colluded ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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