{"id":30709,"date":"2021-01-14T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30709"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T00:07:11","slug":"amazon-e-book-business-faces-antitrust-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30709","title":{"rendered":"AMAZON E-BOOK BUSINESS FACES ANTITRUST PROBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is facing another antitrust investigation, this time from Connecticut over the e-commerce giant\u2019s distribution of e-books.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D) said in a statement his office has \u201can active and ongoing antitrust investigation into Amazon regarding potentially anti competitive terms in their e-book distribution with publishers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur office continues to aggressively monitor this market to protect fair competition for consumers, authors, and other e-book retailers,\u201d Tong said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is facing another antitrust investigation,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30710,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30709\/revisions\/30710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}