Just four days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice’s settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon Schuster for allegedly colluding with Apple to fix ebook prices, Amazon has already begun HarperCollins ebooks.
“We are happy to again be lowering prices on a broad assortment of HarperCollins titles,” an Amazon spokeswoman told me.
Jane Litte, who runs the romance blog Dear Author, first discovered the discounts that Amazon has confirmed:
Many HarperCollins Kindle books no longer have “Price set by the publisher”.Is Agency done for HC? twitter.com/jane_l/status/…
— Jane L (@jane_l) September 10, 2012
more to come