The Department of Justice filed its required report to the court on Tunney Act comments on the proposed ebook pricing settlement with Penguin–which generated a total of 3 comments. Not unexpectedly, they disagree with Bob Kohn’s latest objections: “Mr. Kohn is not correct that firms may, as a matter of law, conspire to undo what they regard to be anticompetitive conduct. As the United States stated its Original Response to Comments, even if there were evidence to substantiate claims of monopolization or predatory pricing by Amazon, it would not have been acceptable for the Publisher Defendants to conspire with Apple […]
