Connecticut is actively investigating how Amazon.com Inc. sells and distributes digital books, according to the state’s attorney general, the latest of several state and federal probes into the tech giant’s business practices.
The investigation is examining whether Amazon engaged in anticompetitive behavior in the e-book business through its agreements with certain publishers, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement.
Connecticut asked Amazon to provide documents related to its dealings with five of the largest U.S. book publishers, according to a subpoena issued in 2019. The Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit that investigates technology platforms, obtained the subpoena through an open records request and shared it with The Wall Street Journal.
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Rosenbaum Famularo, P.C. announced today the release of its video which points out how Amazon s unfair treatment of small business owners and brands has been a contributor to the platform s success. The firm is responding to an article in the Wall Street Journal that shares how Amazon s anti-competitive practices have driven its success while also significantly hurting sellers and brands. The Wall Street Journal article, written by Dana Mattioli, talks about the expansion that Amazon achieved through its aggressive, yet fair competitive behavior in the beginning, and how its unfair practices now are responsible for its continued meteoritic growth, said CJ Rosenbaum, Esq., the founding partner of the firm who was quoted in the article. Basically, Amazon takes sellers and brands information from plans of action, invoices, and inauthentic complaints, and then potentially uses it against them to compete.
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