The improbable antitrust lawsuit alleging that the large trade publishers willingly colluded with Amazon to help the etailer maintain monopoly-level control of ebook prices and overcharged ebook buyers $740 million since 2017 remains alive in the Southern District of New York. (The original suit was dismissed in 2022; this is a refiled, amended version.) In a Wednesday hearing on whether to certify certain ebook buyers as a class, Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein appeared to side with plaintiffs, MLex reports. The proposed class would be “anyone who purchased one or more trade e-books sold by the publishers via an agency model […]
