Amazon faces EU probe over e-book contracts

Biggest e-book seller in Europe under scrutiny for anti-competitive clauses in contracts with publishers

Amazon faces a probe into its e-book contracts with publishers as the EU’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager added to her growing list of fights with US technology companies.

EU regulators said the world’s biggest online retailer may be squeezing out rival distributors of e-books by insisting that publishers can not give better terms.