Amazon and boekenuitgevers sued because of drm in e-books

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A number of bookstores have Amazon sued because the drm has been processed in the by the onlinewarenhuis sold e-books. The security ensures for, among others, that the e-books limited usefulness. Also a number of large publishers have been sued.

The plaintiffs, which consist of a number of American boekenketens, that the making of agreements between publishers and Amazon ensures that smaller parties are not in the e-bookmarkt can be mixed. The issue here is the drm in the books is hidden: so are the e-books that Amazon sells for the Kindle devices, or devices that the Kindle appllicatie installed, but it is not possible to use this outside of the Amazon environment to read.

In the indictment it says that independent bookstores should have the opportunity to e-books without drm sell. In addition, they propose that the sales of e-books with drm through Amazon, a violation of the anti-trustregels. Previously started the German anti-trustwaakhond already an investigation into the onlinewarenhuis for violation of the anti-trustregels; Amazon would third party sellers prohibit their using Amazon products offered elsewhere for a lower price to sell.

The crimes that the indictment submitted by want Amazon books without drm sell and that the boekenuitgevers be required to obtain the e-books also to parties other than Amazon to offer. Also have Amazon and the publishers punished, according to the prosecutors. This is the publishers Random House, Penguin, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Macmillan.

A number of the publishers was already previously convicted for price-fixing. That made sure that Amazon customers money back for e-bookaankopen, although the onlinewarenhuis was not participating in the case.