Canada's competition watchdog settles with HarperCollins

Reuters, here. 

Apple settles $840 million ebooks price-fixing claim

TheVerge.com, here. 

A Perspective on the Merits of the Antitrust Objections to the Failed Google Books Settlement

P. Samuelson, here.

Penguin Faces June 3 Trial in e-Books Case

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

Vertical Restraints for On-Line Sales

P. Buccirossi, here (Note submitted to the OECD Competition Committee).

Ebook Best-Seller Prices Plummet to Below $8.00 as Retailers Get Set to Start Discounting Macmillan Titles

Digitalbookworld.com, here. 

Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

Macmillan settles with DOJ, and Apple is last man standing in ebook pricing case

PaidContent.org, here.

Interesting to academia and beyond:
"Electronic versions of academic textbooks” are removed from the settlement’s “requirements and prohibitions” because the DOJ antitrust case focused only on trade books.

Are The Days Of The $14.99 Ebook Numbered?

Forbes.com, here. 

E-Books in France: Shunned or Just Getting Started?

Publishingperspectives.com, here. 

Why Apple is settling EC's e-books antitrust case -- but not DOJ's

Newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com, here.

EU Commission market tests commitments proposed by Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Hachette, Holtzbrinck and Apple for the sale of e-books

Press Release, here and Communication here.

Book Prices Are Going Up (Down) (or Both)

R. Picker, here. 

e-Books and the boundaries of Antitrust

D. Bosco, J. Jacobson, K. Piro, G. Manne, W. Rinehart, F. Siiriainen, M. Powell, A. Oh, in Tendances: Concurrences, here. 

Can ‘Fair’ Prices Be Unfair? A Review of Price Relationship Agreements

Lear (for the OFT), here. 

The price drops begin: What do HarperCollins ebooks cost now?

PaidContent.org, here. 

E-books and Amazon

A. Foer, T. Patterson, here. 

Lawyer files urgent request to stop ebook price changes

PaidContent.org, here
Motion to stay here. 

What the ebook settlement means for publishers, Apple and you

PaidContent.org, here.