Federal Court Finds Apple And Publishers Fixed E-Book Prices
Posted 07/15/13
Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that Apple Inc. conspired with five of the “Big Six” publishing houses—Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers LLC, Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC d/b/a Macmillan, Penguin Group (USA), Inc., and Simon & Schuster, Inc.—to raise the prices of electronic books (“e-books”) in violation of antitrust...