Four of the publishers in the Europe’s antitrust ebooks price-fixing probe, along with Apple, have offered to scrap their agency model in Europe and allow retailers to set any price they want for ebooks

Posted: 2012/09/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports

The offer, if accepted, would hold good for two years. The parties have also offered to suspend “most favoured nation” clauses for five years.

The publishers – Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, the Hachette Book Group – made the offer last month, but it’s been disclosed by the European Commission today.

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/eu_ebooks_antitrust_offer/

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