On Friday, Bob Kohn filed with the US District Court indicating his intention to appear in opposition to final entry of the Federal ebook pricing settlements with Macmillan and Penguin. The new wrinkle to avoid being dismissed as not having standing in the matter is that Kohn objects as one of the many eligible consumers affected by the settlement. His primary intention is to reassert the simple but sensational argument that Judge Cote ignored the most important element of the entire ebook pricing saga: “Amazon’s below marginal cost pricing” of ebooks prior to the launch of the agency model. That […]
