So Apple lost a lawsuit about price|fixing eBooks... so why is it the ...

So Apple lost a lawsuit about price-fixing eBooks... so why is it the ...

It seems like eBook prices have skyrocketed. Oftentimes when I look at an Amazon listing, I'll see the eBooks selling for more than hardcover editions.

Apple Feels Schadenfreude as Amazon is Accused of eBook Price ...

Apparently this was “uncompetitive” of Apple so Apple was sued and the actual monopoly engaging in actual anticompetitive practices continued.

Did Apple Fix E-Book Prices for the Greater Good? | The New Yorker

It originated in 2012, when the Department of Justice sued Apple and five book publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and ...

Apple Loses: Judge Finds Price-Fixing in E-Book Case

In a major blow, Judge Denise Cote today ruled that Apple did indeed collude with five major publishers to fix e-book prices in 2010. The ...

Apple to pay $450m settlement over US ebook price fixing

The US supreme court on Monday declined to hear Apple's challenge to an appellate court decision that it conspired with five publishers to ...

Why Apple has Lost the E-Book War - Author Coach!

These are essentially the state- and class-action versions of the same lawsuit that the Department of Justice filed against Apple and several ...

Apple Loses Ebook Price Fixing Appeal, Must Pay $450 Million

An anonymous reader writes: A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 today that Apple indeed conspired with publishers to increase ebook prices.

Apple is returning money to ebook buyers after losing price-fixing ...

It was accused of colluding with the major book publishers to raise the price of ebooks above the $9.99 that Amazon liked to sell them for.

Apple colluded on e-book prices, judge finds | Reuters

In a sweeping rejection of Apple Inc's strategy for selling electronic books on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that the company ...

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple's Appeal in E-Book Pricing ...

The case arose from Apple's 2010 entry into the e-book marketplace, which had been dominated by Amazon and its Kindle reader. Publishers ...

Apple played 'central role' in ebook price-fixing conspiracy, says ...

Apple has been found guilty of conspiring with book publishers to raise ebook prices, in one of the biggest anti-trust lawsuits ever brought by US federal ...

Second Circuit Affirms Apple's Liability for Per Se Unlawful E-Book ...

The decision confirms that it is unlawful for a company to knowingly participate in a price-fixing conspiracy, whatever its specific role in the conspiracy or ...

What's with Apple Price-Fixing Ebooks—and Does This Mean ...

This came about because publishers worried that when Amazon sold books for cheaper than everyone else (at a loss to Amazon) it would set ...

United States v. Apple (2012) - Wikipedia

and five book publishing companies conspired to raise and fix the price for e-books in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The publishers are ...

Apple loses e-book pricing lawsuit, but are consumers the real losers?

On Wednesday, Apple was convicted of conspiring with five of the six biggest publishers in the U.S. to raise the price of e-books. The amount of ...

Apple Found Guilty in E-Book Price Fixing Conspiracy Trial | TIME.com

Apple "facilitated a conspiracy" with major book publishers to raise the price of e-books, costing consumers millions of dollars, a federal ...

Apple guilty of ebook price fixing, rules federal court - The Verge

After a trial and several settlements with other publishers, a federal judge has ruled that Apple conspired to raise the price of ebooks ...

Bracing for Another E-book Price-Fixing Case - Publishers Weekly

Most likely because of how federal antitrust law is written. “The suit likely only names Amazon because of the so-called 'direct purchaser' rule ...

The DOJ's Ebook Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Apple and the ...

What concerned them was the possibility that the publishers–at first among themselves and later with Apple–had colluded on establishing it, as a ...

Apple Loses Appeal in E-Books Price Fixing Lawsuit ... - MacRumors

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today upheld a 2013 decision that found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to raise ...