Ace Books, Inc.
Volume 67 · 67 F.T.C. 1073
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Ace Books, Inc., 67 F.T.C. 1073 (1965). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v067-0065
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In the MATTER OF ACE BOOKS, INC., ET AL.
ORDER, OPINION, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF sec. 2(d) OF THE CLAYTON ACT Docket 8557. Complaint, Mar. 5, 1963—Decision, June 18, 1965 Order requiring a New York City publisher of paperback books, and _ its: affiliate, to cease violating Sec. 2(d) of the Clayton Act, by paying or contracting for the payment of promotional or display allowances to some of their customers while failing to make such allowances available on proportionally equal terms to all other competing customers. Complaint The Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that the parties respondent named in the caption hereof and hereinafter more particularly designated and described, have violated and are: now violating the provisions of subsection (d) of Section 2 of the Clayton Act (U.S.C., Title 15, Section 18), as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, hereby issues its complaint stating its. charges with respect thereto as follows: Paragraph 1. Respondent Ace Books, Inc., is a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the State of New York, with its principal office and place of business located at 23. West 47th Street, New York, New York. Said respondent, among other things, has been engaged and is presently engaged in the business of publishing and distributing various publications including paperback books under copy-righted titles. Respondent’s sales of such publications have been and are substantial. Respondent Ace News Company, Inc., formerly a division of respondent Ace Books, Inc., is now a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the State of New York, with its principal office and place of business located at 28 West 47th Street, New York, New York. Said respondent, among other things, has. been engaged and is presently engaged in the business of distributing ACE BOOKS, INC., ET AL. 1073:
1065 Complaint Commission a report in writing setting forth in detail the manner and form in which they have complied with this order.