{"id":21093,"date":"2021-04-02T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2021-04-02T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:13:47","slug":"amazon-and-big-five-publishers-collude-in-anti-trust-price-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=21093","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Big Five Publishers Collude in Anti-trust\/Price-fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/04\/amazon-colluded-with-publishers-to-fix-book-prices-class-action-suit-alleges\/\"><strong>ArsTechnica<\/strong><\/a> untangles the <strong>anti-trust<\/strong> and <strong>price-fixing litigation<\/strong> surrounding <strong>Amazon<\/strong> and the <strong>big five legacy publishers<\/strong>\u2014<strong>HarperCollins<\/strong>, <strong>Hachette<\/strong>, <strong>Macmillan<\/strong>, <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>, and <strong>Penguin Random House<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>same publishers<\/strong> pulled this scam <strong>colluding with Apple (that paid $450-mil settlement on denial of appeal)<\/strong> in <strong>2007<\/strong>, but <strong>the five<\/strong> settled out of court. <strong>(Publishers paid out tens of millions &#8230;)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArsTechnica untangles the anti-trust and price-fixing litigation surrounding Amazon and the big five legacy publishers\u2014HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Simon &amp; Schuster, and Penguin Random House. The same publishers pulled this scam colluding with Apple (that paid $450-mil settlement on denial of appeal) in 2007, but the five settled out of court. (Publishers paid out tens of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=21093\">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":[4,5,8,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093"}],"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=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21096,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions\/21096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}