Since 1890, US federal antitrust law has been there every step of the way, drawing the line between permissible and impermissible restraints.

This book summarizes those antitrust lines today. As antitrust jurisprudence underwent a revolution in the late 20th century, the location of many of those lines changed. The more recent rise of e-commerce has meant that those antitrust principles had to be applied to new fact patterns. Those changes in legal interpretations and distribution practices are covered here in ways designed to give manufacturers and retailers, franchisors and franchisees a concise description of antitrust risks from any distribution scheme.