Defunct Indie eBook Retailer BooksOnBoard Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, 5 Publishers
BooksOnBoard may have abruptly gone out of business last April but that doesn't mean it's completely gone. Some remnant is still active, and last week it filed an antitrust lawsuit.
Abbey House Media, the Texas-based company that owned and ran BooksOnBoard, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan last Friday. The lawsuit alleges that Apple colluded with 5 publishers, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster, to raise the price of ebooks and artificially restrict competition via price controls.
- Companies:
- Amazon.com
- Apple
- HarperCollins
- Places:
- Manhattan
- Texas
- United States
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