Macmillan US c.e.o. John Sargent has said the publisher will continue to fight its lawsuit with the Department of Justice over agency model collusion, despite Penguin having settled earlier this week. However Sargent said the publisher voluntarily negotiated new retailer e-book contracts shortly after the suit was filed.

In a letter...

When on the 11th April the Department of Justice went public with its lawsuit against five US publishers over the adoption of the agency model, my hunch was that this day would be remembered as the moment publishing changed: became less convivial for sure, more professional in some ways and certainly much less fun.

Seven months on...

Publishers and Apple fighting the US' Department of Justice over agency pricing have hit back, with new filings submitted to the Southern District of New York on Wednesday afternoon (15th August) calling on the trial judge to deny the government's efforts to ratify the settlement agreements, or defer ruling on them until after trial...

A group of independent publishers in America have written to the Department of Justice in support of the agency agreement, warning that abolishing it would reduce competition in the market.

The nine indie presses - including Grove/Atlantic, W. W. Norton and Perseus Books Group – joined forces to warn that the DOJ abolishing the...