• Apple Found Guilty in E-Book Price Fixing Conspiracy Trial
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[QUOTE] [URL="http://topics.time.com/apple/"]Apple[/URL] “facilitated a conspiracy” with major book publishers to raise the price of e-books, costing [URL="http://topics.time.com/consumers/"]consumers[/URL] millions of dollars, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, in a significant blow to the world’s largest technology company. The [URL="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/Apple-ebooksruling.pdf"]decision[/URL], handed down by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan, is a major victory for the U.S. government, and could have important implications for the digital media market. Even as Judge Cote called for a new trial to determine damages in the case, Apple maintained its innocence and said it would appeal the decision. The major publishers had previously settled with the government. “The plaintiffs have shown that the publisher defendants conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices, and that Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy,” Judge Cote wrote in her 160-page ruling. “Without Apple’s orchestration of this conspiracy, it would not have succeeded as it did in the Spring of 2010.” [/QUOTE] [URL="http://business.time.com/2013/07/10/apple-found-guilty-in-e-book-price-fixing-conspiracy-trial/#ixzz2YjRJtLgS"]http://business.time.com/2013/07/10/...#ixzz2YjRJtLgS[/URL]
Apple assures you all that there are serious manufacturing and shipping and handling costs in E-Books, they swear.
Now can we hit them with an antitrust for not being allowed to install a new browsing engine on iOS devices (and MS with the surface RT).
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