EU competition regulators have carried out unannounced inspections into various companies that sell online digital books. The companies, in several different European countries, were not identified.
The biggest business in the global digital book market include Amazon, Google’s eBooks and Apple’s iBooks.
European Union competition law is one of the areas of authority of the European Union. Competition law, or antitrust as it is known in the United States, regulates the exercise of market power by large companies, governments or other economic entities. In the EU, it is an important part of ensuring the completion of the internal market, meaning the free flow of working people, goods, services and capital in a borderless Europe.