Bookends & Beginnings LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al

  1. October 06, 2023

    FTC's Antitrust Case Against Amazon Has Company

    The Federal Trade Commission lodged a landmark antitrust case against Amazon late last month, accusing the e-commerce giant of driving up prices across the internet through its treatment of sellers on its platform, but several pending suits were already targeting some of the allegations.

  2. August 29, 2023

    Amazon, Publishers Duck Antitrust Suit Over Book Sales

    A federal court in New York has tossed a proposed class action from a bookstore accusing Amazon of monopolizing retail book sales and working with the country's five largest publishers to inflate the price of print books after finding the allegations fell short.

  3. January 23, 2023

    Amazon Looks To Toss Renewed Book Antitrust Suits

    Amazon urged a New York federal court to dismiss the renewed claims in two putative antitrust class actions accusing the online retail giant and the country's five largest book publishers of secretly fixing digital and traditional book prices, arguing Monday that the amended complaints should fail like the initial complaints did.

  4. September 29, 2022

    Amazon, Big 5 Publishers Beat Book Antitrust Suits, For Now

    A New York federal judge Thursday dismissed two antitrust lawsuits accusing Amazon and the country's five largest book publishers of secretly fixing digital and traditional book prices, backing the "well-reasoned" recommendations of a magistrate judge while allowing the plaintiffs to rework their complaints.

  5. September 16, 2022

    Bookstore Fights Judge's Rec To Toss Amazon Antitrust Suit

    A Midwestern bookstore suing Amazon.com Inc. and five major book publishers in New York federal court for allegedly colluding to increase book prices and squeeze out smaller retailers is pushing back against a magistrate judge's recommendation to dismiss the suit, arguing it did enough to show the publishers' discounts to Amazon were discriminatory.

  6. September 07, 2022

    Amazon Antitrust Class Claims Shouldn't Be Cut, Judge Says

    A New York magistrate judge recommended a court deny Amazon's motion to strike class claims accusing it and the country's five largest publishers of colluding to constrain the bookselling market, saying Wednesday the motion is premature and unsupported.

  7. August 24, 2022

    Judge Urged To Toss Bookstore's Amazon Antitrust Case

    A federal judge in New York has recommended tossing a proposed class action from a bookstore accusing Amazon and the country's five largest publishers of colluding to constrain the bookselling market, after finding the alleged conduct appears rational.

  8. September 08, 2021

    Amazon, Publishers Look To Toss Bookstore's Antitrust Suit

    Amazon and the "Big Five" publishers accused of colluding to constrain the bookselling market and inflate wholesale print book prices told a New York federal court that a bookstore's proposed class action against them is an "illogical" complaint against healthy competition.

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