FTC and 22 states sue Amazon over ad-auction pricing
The complaint says Amazon overrode advertised auction results and extracted more than $20 billion from advertisers since 2019.
AI, copyright & law
4 briefs in this drawer.
Anthropic payouts may slip as class lawyers appeal fees
ALLi’s news editor flags an appeal over reduced legal fees that could delay the $3,000-per-title payments, plus a Guild survey on who actually registered the copyrights.
Google opens purchased Play Books inside Gemini Notebook
Expert Intelligence lets a reader query a title they already bought. The launch catalogue is licensed trad-publisher stock, not the open KDP backlist.
Kobo returns to Best Buy; ALLi reports Amazon destroying books for AI training
A retail foothold for Kobo in US big-box, and a grim rights story about physical copies being pulped to feed models.