EU Drops Its Antitrust Probe Over Amazon E-Book Contracts

May 4, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

A reader handles an Amazon Kindle at a book fair in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2015.

The European Union’s executive arm closed the investigation after accepting Amazon’s promise to strip its publisher contracts of clauses that the commission feared were “harmful to consumers.”

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