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$628,000 Judgment

Posted by: Mike Schrant August 30, 2012 in KD Country 94 Local News Comments Off

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office announced today that Kansans who purchased certain electronic books will share in more than $628,000 in refunds.

The Kansas AG’s office, along with 54-other states, districts and U.S. territories have come to terms with three of the nation’s largest book publishers to resolve alleged anti-trust violations… Hachette Book Group, Harper Collins Publishing, and Simon and Schuster. The 3-companies have agreed to pay nearly $70-million to U.S. consumers.

The attorneys general alleged the publishers unlawfully conspired to fix the prices of electronic books or e-books.

Under the proposed settlement, which must be approved by the Court, the
3-publishers will compensate consumers who purchased e-books from any of the conspiring publishers between April 1st 2010 and May 21st, 2012.

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Mike is one of those guys who has spent nearly a lifetime trying to figure out what he wants to do when he grows up. He has split time as a broadcaster and educator having first worked in radio in the early 1970’s while attending junior college. The two careers are directly connected because many of the 25 years as an educator were spent teaching broadcast journalism at the high school and college levels. Mike is married and has three adult children (no grandchildren yet) and enjoys sports, debating politics, gardening, landscaping-hauling rocks, and swapping stories with the "good old boys".

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