Interestingly, the payout includes folks who bought e-books from Macmillan and Penguin, even though those two publishers aren't settling.

ENGADGET: States reach $69 million settlement with three publishers in e-book price fixing case

Macmillan is the smallest of the big-six publishers, which produce sixty per cent of all books sold in the U.S. Like its peers, Macmillan relies heavily on Amazon, which sells about fourteen per cent of its trade books and the vast majority of its e-books.

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