The fanciful class action suit against Amazon and the five largest trade publishers, alleging that publishers were willing and direct participants in Amazon achieving monopoly-level control of the ebook market, is back in an amended version. At the end of September, US District Judge Gregory Woods had dismissed the case, but without prejudice, allowing the plaintiffs to refile, though it’s not clear why this new version should go any further than the previous suit. Federal Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo previously had concluded that the plaintiffs gave “no plausible explanation for why the publishers would have been motivated to participate in […]
