(13 May 2022) China’s market regulator had launched an antitrust investigation into the country’s largest online academic database, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). The State Administration for Market Regulation published the announcement on its website. It did not provide further details. CNKI, whose parent company is Tsinghua Tongfang 600100.SS, a Chinese state-owned software company…
(13 Jun 2021) The UK’s competition regulator is to investigate Turnitin’s proposal to buy out its last major rival in global academic integrity services. The Competition and Markets Authority said that it was considering whether Turnitin’s planned acquisition of Ouriginal “may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition” in the UK. Some academics…
(17 Aug 2020) The leading American professional associations for authors, publishers, and booksellers write to the House Antitrust Subcommittee about what they call Amazon’s ‘scale of operation’ and ‘share of the market.’ In a letter provided to Publishing Perspectives this morning (August 17), three leading American publishing industry professional organizations tell the House of Representatives’ Antitrust…