A decade after the ambitious Connecticut Attorney General (now US senator Richard Blumenthal) joined the ambitious Texas Attorney General (now Texas governor Greg Abbott) in helping to provide Amazon with a government-enhanced strangehold on the ebook market, a new Connecticut AG has been investigating Amazon for a while. The office of AG William Tong “has an active and ongoing antitrust investigation into Amazon regarding potentially anticompetitive terms” in its contract with major publishers. Tong’s statement said, “Our office continues to aggressively monitor this market to protect fair competition for consumers, authors, and other e-book retailers.” In the past, this office […]
