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TRIAL TO BEGIN IN ANTITRUST SUIT AGAINST BOOKSTORE CHAINS |
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by Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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26 Mar 2001
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After more than two years in the discovery phase, a trial is finally
scheduled to begin on April 9 in the antitrust lawsuit brought by the
American Booksellers Association (ABA) and more than 20 individual
bookstores against Barnes & Noble and Borders Books. |
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, charges the two
chains with using their market clout to bully publishers into providing
"secret, discriminatory, and illegal" discounts not made available to
independent bookstores, even on orders of the same volume. These
discounts in turn helped fuel the companies' rapid expansion in the last
decade.
-- To follow the trial, visit the ABA's web site at
http://www.bookweb.org for regular updates or sign-up for the ABA
Litigation Update, a special daily email publication that will track the
trial, by sending email to info (at) bookweb.org with "Opt-in to ABA Legal
Update" in the subject line.
-- For background on the lawsuit, see the New Rules web site at
http://www.newrules.org/retail/antiprice.html.
This originally appeared in The Home Town Advantage Bulletin
(http://www.newrules.org/hta/index.htm), a bimonthly email newsletter from
the New Rules Project (http://www.newrules.org) of the Institute for Local
Self-Reliance. |
See also:
http://www.newrules.org/
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