Antitrust and Amazon Ebooks

Amazon’s E-Books Business Investigated by European Antitrust Regulators

David Streitfeld and Mark Scott | June 11, 2015

...European regulators said on Thursday that they were beginning an antitrust investigation into whether Amazon used its dominant position in the region’s e-books market to favor its own products over rivals.

[Wired.com: ] European regulators have been on an antitrust crusade in recent months, cracking down on American tech companies for their dealings overseas. Today, in the latest step in its continent-wide campaign, the European Commission announced an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s e-book distribution deals.

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