If you purchased a Kindle book from Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, or Macmillan between 4/1/10 and 5/21/12, you should have some free money sitting in your Amazon account right now.




The settlement comes from a 2012 case where the Department of Justice accused Apple and five major publishers of conspiring to raise the price of ebooks. So, if you purchased a book from one of those publishers for your Amazon Kindle, you’re now eligible for credit on Amazon to make up for it. How much you get depends on how many books you bought and from what publishers. You should get an email from Amazon with a breakdown, but you can also see how much credit you get on Amazon’s special landing page. That credit works for anything too, not just ebooks.