by William Markham | Oct 22, 2014 | Antitrust Litigation and Counseling
In this note I continue to consider Amazon’s recent heavy-handed treatment of Hachette and other book-publishers by “burying” their books in its system so that customers cannot find them, and by delaying the delivery of these books to the few determined customers who...
by William Markham | Oct 11, 2014 | Antitrust Litigation and Counseling
To my earlier comments about Amazon in my blog, I add the following points. I have waded into these troubled waters after reading disheartening accounts of Amazon’s shoddy treatment of book publishers, whose books are consigned to the netherworld of Amazon’s site...
by William Markham | Oct 10, 2014 | Antitrust Litigation and Counseling
Are the antitrust laws implicated by Amazon’s new strategy of depriving sellers of access to its platform unless they offer it market-beating prices that they cannot offer to anyone else? The short answer is that the practice exposes Amazon to arguable but problematic...
by William Markham | Feb 13, 2014 | Business Litigation
Price-fixing merely means that two companies that are genuinely independent of one another have acted in concert to fix, raise, lower or otherwise manipulate the going prices for products or services that they each provide. Price-fixing constitutes a serious, per se...
by William Markham | Jan 31, 2014 | Business Litigation
The best indicator of a company’s value is its price-to-earnings ratio: At what price could you purchase the company? This price is the current valuation of the company. How does this price compare to the company’s present earnings, which are the company’s revenues...