Canada’s Competition Bureau reached modest new consent agreements with Apple and three major publishers — Hachette, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — related to the introduction of agency ebook pricing there. HarperCollins declined to settle, and the Commissioner of Competition is seeking harsher restrictions on the company’s ebook pricing as a result. Apple will drop all most favored nations clauses from their sales agreements with major ebook publishers (including Penguin Random House) for 3 years. The settling publishers agree to drop most favored nations clauses from their agreements with all ebooksellers in Canada for 3 years, and they will not “restrict, limit […]
