By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 13 – Amazon.com has been sued for alleged price restraints with the Big Five in e-books: Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan and Penguin.
On July 13, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Debra C. Freeman held a proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.
Amazon and the Big Five were, not surprisingly, together pushing for a stay of discovery.
But Judge Freeman explained that the default in SDNY is to allow discovery to go forward.
She urged the parties to try to agree on a scope of discovery, suggesting that the plaintiffs not insist on seeing all contract, and the the defendants not insist on withholding everything.
There are other cases against Amazon, and sure to be more.
This one is In Re Amazon.com, Inc. eBook Antitrust Litigation, 21-cv-351 (Woods / Freeman)
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