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2025-06-27 05:20:45 [Shopping] Source: Openness Information Network

Nearly three years ago,Just a Stranger Apple was found guilty of conspiring to raise the retail prices of e-books and ordered to pay $400 million to consumers.

In March, the Supreme Court rejected Apple’s appeal to overturn the ruling. As a result, Apple has started pushing out payments to consumers.

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Customers who purchased e-books from Hachette. HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin or Macmillan between April 1, 2010 and May 21, 2012 from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and others can expect to see digital credits in their account. The settlement is good for $6.93 for each New York Times best-selling e-book and $1.57 for other ebooks.

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If you are an Amazon customer, check your email to see how much credit you have in your account. That credit is good until June 24, 2017 and can be used towards other Amazon Kindle books. You can also sign-in on this page to see how much credit you have.

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Amazon has also has an FAQ for customers with more details.

Other e-book retailers will also be issuing credits to customers, so check your email.

Back in 2014, publishers issued settlements to customers. This new settlement amount comes directly from Apple.

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