{"id":20993,"date":"2021-01-19T07:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20993"},"modified":"2021-01-19T07:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:38:14","slug":"price-fixing-lawsuit-filed-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20993","title":{"rendered":"Price-Fixing Lawsuit Filed Against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/class-suit-filed-against-amazon-and-big-five-e-book-price-fixing-us-1233473\"><strong>The Bookseller<\/strong><\/a> has more on the recent <strong>class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon<\/strong> and <strong>the big five publishers <\/strong>(<strong>Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Hachette, Simon &amp; Schuster, and HarperCollins<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Looks like a repeat of the <strong>2011 Apple <\/strong>and <strong>the big-six price-fixing debacle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, if anyone is wondering why the<strong> eBook Revolution stalled<\/strong>: Unbridled capitalism = quest for monopoly = criminality.<\/p>\n<p>More in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/publisher-news\/article\/85318-amazon-hit-with-e-book-price-fixing-suit.html\"><strong>PublishersWeekly<\/strong><\/a> article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bookseller has more on the recent class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon and the big five publishers (Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Hachette, Simon &amp; Schuster, and HarperCollins.) Looks like a repeat of the 2011 Apple and the big-six price-fixing debacle. So, if anyone is wondering why the eBook Revolution stalled: Unbridled capitalism = quest for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=20993\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20998,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions\/20998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}