Amazon accused of colluding with publishers to raise e-book prices by 30%
A lawsuit filed against Amazon on Thursday alleged that the e-commerce platform entered into anticompetitive pricing agreements in 2015 with major publishers that allowed them to illegally increase e-book prices by 30%. The publishers named were Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster. Apple was found guilty of colluding with the same five publishers in 2013.