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Amazon, ‘Big Five’ publishers accused of fixing e-book prices in US

By Michael Acton and Max Fillion ( January 14, 2021, 23:30 GMT | Insight) -- Amazon and the “Big Five” US publishing firms continue to hike the prices of trade e-books in spite of efforts by US and EU antitrust enforcers to crack down on restrictive contracts in the online publishing market, according to a proposed class action filed in US court in New York. The plaintiffs — a proposed class of individual purchasers of e-books — say the publishers eliminate price competition by coordinating with Amazon not to sell their products at lower prices through other online retailers, in terms which are effectively the same as controversial "most-favored nation" clauses. Amazon and the “Big Five” US publishing firms continue to hike the prices of trade e-books in spite of efforts by US and EU antitrust enforcers to crack down on restrictive contracts in the online publishing market, according to a proposed class action filed today in US court in New York....

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