April 29, 2012
- Buzz Bissinger’s postscript to “Friday Night Lights” was doing well as an e-book. Then a giveaway involving Apple and Starbucks became a pricing dispute with Amazon.
April 17, 2012
- Some fear that a price-fixing lawsuit might give Amazon a pass to offer discounts that could put its competitors out of business.
April 15, 2012
- An antitrust suit may provide short-term price reductions on e-books, but once the competition is flattened, Amazon is likely to resume its monopolistic ways.
- In February, the Educational Development Corporation said it would remove all its titles from Amazon, more evidence of the tumult over who gets to decide how much a book costs.
April 11, 2012
- The government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put Amazon, the nation’s largest bookseller, in a powerful position to decide how much an e-book will cost.
March 8, 2012
- The Justice Department is threatening to sue Apple and five big publishers over a pricing model for electronic books that it says constitutes collusion and violates antitrust laws.