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September 19, 2012 02:30 pm GMT

Big Win For Amazon, B&N In Europe: Apple, Four Big Publishers Terminate Their Agency Deal

ibookstoreSome development in the e-book price war being played out in Europe -- and an indirect victory for Amazon and any other retailer not called Apple in the process: the European Commission has announced that Apple and the four big publishers Hachette, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have offered to drop their agency pricing agreement for e-books sold in Europe -- although the five still "do not agree" with the European Commission's preliminary assessment that those agreements were anticompetitive in the first place.

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