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E-books / Antitrust Settlement

Slyvon

Slyvon

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Hi all!

Thought it was worth mentioning, it looks like the credits for the eBook Antitrust Settlement from last year are being added to accounts. I got the following Amazon email tonight:

"Good news! You are entitled to a credit of $14.37 for some of your past Kindle book purchases. The credit results from legal settlements reached with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin in antitrust lawsuits filed by State Attorneys General and Class Plaintiffs about
the price of eBooks."

I was surprised at the amount considering I've only bought about 50 books on my Kindle.

Off to buy more Star Trek books!! :)
--Chris
 
I immediately used my credit to buy Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel of course.

(Unfortunately, the credit doesn't pay for the damn sales tax. :scream: )
 
I made $61.57. I was on a real Trek book kick when this was happening; I read over 100 Trek novels in 2011.
 
$8.03 and I was surprised I got that much since I tend to buy the daily deal and similarly priced books.
 
Thanks for the heads up. I got $18 and change, but I don't have any Trek books that I'm after so I got the next books in the Kate Daniels and Iron Druid Chronicles series.
 
I got around sixty something. I used it to pick up some books that normally I would have wishlisted and waited for a price drop. I'm a huge poli-sci geek as well as a history geek so my wish list is usually full of books with huge page counts. Also picked up a new and by all accounts most excellent biography on Johnny Cash.
 
How big was the time frame did this lawsuit or whatever it was cover? I was expecting to get more than I did, I have been buying a lot of E-books for a while now, and I thought this covered years.
 
You are included in the Settlements if:

1. You purchased an E-book that was published by one of the five Publishers (all of the Publishers publish books under many different names, called imprints, See Question 6), and

2. Your purchase was made from April 1, 2010 through May 21, 2012, and

3. You were a resident of 1) a U.S. state or commonwealth, 2) the District of Columbia, or 3) one of the five U.S. Territories at the time of purchase. The billing address of the credit card you used to buy the included E-book(s) will be used to determine your residency.
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https://ebooksagsettlements.com/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.aspx
 
I have yet to buy an Ebook from Amazon so I'll ask. Were there other online outlets involved in this in some way?
 
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Yeah, all of my books during that period were through the Barnes & Noble Nook. I never bought a Kindle e-book until a couple weeks ago.
EDIT: Thanks for the info Defcon. I thought you got the full amount back for each book.
 
I believe Barnes & Noble was subject to the same suit. A number of my students reported getting e-mails from B&N with a similar refund Monday morning, though none of them reported an amount higher than few dollars.

That date range makes a lot of sense as to why my refund was so high. I bought a lot of Trek eBooks in 2010 in preparation for tackling the DS9-R, Movie-Era TNG and Voyager.
 
Well, considering the ebooks I buy are the ones that are ONLY available in ebook, I scored a whopping 75 cents.
 
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