Connecticut Joins Texas In Investigating Agency Model eBook Pricing 
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After our exclusive report in June on preliminary questioning underway from the anti-trust division of the Texas Attorney General's office into pricing practices for ebooks immediately following Apple's entry into the marketplace, a New York-based antitrust lawyer told us knowingly that other states were conducting similar inquiries but declined to provide any specifics.

Now Bloomberg reports that at least one other player is Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's office, saying "the information was disclosed in an e-mailed statement." The news service says they are "investigating agreements between the country's largest e-book publishers and Amazon.com and Apple that may block competitors from offering cheaper e-book prices."

As far as other states that might also have an interest in the matter, we note that attorneys general from Texas and Connecticut--as well as Pennsylvania, Washington and Massachusetts--all filed objections with the US District Court in the still-unresolved Google Books case.