Apple to Terminate Exclusive Agreement on Audio Books

2017/03/15

Under the pressure of EU antitrust regulators, Amazon and Apple will terminate a global exclusive agreements on the supply and distribution of audio books. The exclusive agreements requested Apple should only purchase audio books from Audible Department of Amazon. Meantime, according to provisions of the contract, Audible could not supply audio books to any other data platforms except iTunes Store. After the promise made by Amazon and Apple, Germany antitrust department terminated the arranged formal investigation aiming at the contract.