Free credits in your Amazon account? Apple pays up after price-fixing suit

Company begins paying out more than $400m to customers who were overcharged for ebooks

Apple has begun paying out $400m to customers who were overcharged for ebooks, crediting buyers' accounts with up to $6.93 per book.

Following a court ruling that the tech giant had conspired with five publishers to fix prices, booksellers on Tuesday started refunding customers who bought the affected ebooks - sold between April 2010 and May 2012 - with store credit in their accounts on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and iTunes.