E book settlement Holy Wah!

[grampster]

B&N notified me I have $137.00 put in my account due to the e book kerfluffle with publishers.   I thought maybe I'd see 13 cents.

[Ben]

Yeah, I saw that with Amazon the other day. Mine is only like $16, but I was quite surprised at even that smaller amount. I too would have expected <$1.

[freakazoid]

Dang. Apparently I should of been buying more books.

[Fitz]

I got 20 and was surprised.

Time to finish the dark tower

[mtnbkr]

$.73 here, but I have purchased almost no e-books from B&N.  Amazon, on the other hand, has received a lot of my money.

Chris

[Unisaw]

I just got $20 from Amazon and was happy until I saw grampster got $137.

[Boomhauer]

B&N notified me I have $137.00 put in my account due to the e book kerfluffle with publishers.   I thought maybe I'd see 13 cents.

Holy *expletive deleted*it

I got .73 cents i think. I buy most of my books at used bookstores though

[Hutch]

Two dollah you ess. 

[cosine]

Guess I don't buy enough ebooks. Nada.

[KD5NRH]

I got .73 cents i think. I buy most of my books at used bookstores though

About the same.  The local used bookstore's owner looked at me funny when I told her I was a bit disappointed in her selection of Heinlein and Clarke, and grabbed a couple of boxes out of the back.

Bulk pricing on already-cheap used books is nice :)

[dogmush]

I got $26 and change, but Wifey spent it on The Divergent series before I got to it.

[Devonai]

What were the details of the settlement?  I hate to think any of you were overcharged for my e-books.

I did not receive anything from Amazon, but I've only purchased about a dozen e-books from them over the years.

[birdman]

How did I only get $20?  I've bought something like 200 books on amazon kindle, and >100 dead tree ones from same.

[Ben]

I'm not sure of the exact terms, but I think it only applied to a handful of publishers. Big names from what I remember from the email. So two people could have spent the same money on books, but one person gets $100, and the other gets $1, depending on who the publishers were.

ETA: Found the email in my trash.

The credit results from legal settlements reached with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin in antitrust lawsuits filed by State Attorneys General and Class Plaintiffs about the price of eBooks.

[MillCreek]

Ah, I love those class action lawsuits, where the plaintiff counsel get around half of the settlement amounts and the class plaintiffs get a small credit to spend. 

[Phantom Warrior]

Ah, I love those class action lawsuits, where the plaintiff counsel get around half of the settlement amounts and the class plaintiffs get a small credit to spend. 

And the defendant counsel (who lost) still got to bill hundreds of dollars an hour for their work.  After two years of law school one thing I've learned, in litigation the lawyers always win.  No matter how the lawsuit is resolved.

[41magsnub]

$.73 here, but I have purchased almost no e-books from B&N.  Amazon, on the other hand, has received a lot of my money.

Chris

Same amount for me from Amazon - that is 1 book.

[grampster]

Amazon customers are to receive funds as well, iirc.

[mtnbkr]

Amazon customers are to receive funds as well, iirc.

All of the communications I've received related to this have been for B&N.  I suspect the stuff I buy is from publishers not part of the lawsuit.

Chris

[Boomhauer]

Amazon customers are to receive funds as well, iirc.

Amazon is where my credit is coming from. I haven't brought any ebooks from B&N...

[rcnixon]

Dang. Apparently I should of been buying more books.

          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                           

You should read one on English grammar.  Where, I wonder, is the verb in that sentence? Here's a hint; "of" is a preposition. Another hint; "to have" is the infinitive form of the verb "have".

I can't help it, the Sisters of Charity, the Irish Cristian Brothers and my wife made me this way.

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/have.html

Thanks, I feel better now,

Russ

[RevDisk]

How did I only get $20?  I've bought something like 200 books on amazon kindle, and >100 dead tree ones from same.

Could be worse. I got $0.73, but most of mine were either Baen or technical books.

[freakazoid]

          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                           

You should read one on English grammar.  Where, I wonder, is the verb in that sentence? Here's a hint; "of" is a preposition. Another hint; "to have" is the infinitive form of the verb "have".

I can't help it, the Sisters of Charity, the Irish Cristian Brothers and my wife made me this way.

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/have.html

Thanks, I feel better now,

Russ

Neva!

Perhaps this would of been better, "Dang. Apparently I should'ave been buying more books."

[MillCreek]

          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                           

You should read one on English grammar.  Where, I wonder, is the verb in that sentence? Here's a hint; "of" is a preposition. Another hint; "to have" is the infinitive form of the verb "have".

I can't help it, the Sisters of Charity, the Irish Cristian Brothers and my wife made me this way.

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/have.html

Thanks, I feel better now,

Russ

Are you sure they weren't the Irish Christian Brothers?   

[rcnixon]

Are you sure they weren't the Irish Christian Brothers?   

You know that it is a requirement that every spelling or grammar flame has to have a spelling or grammar error.

Russ