Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Apr. 25, 2012
DOJ pursues e-book price-fixing scheme against Apple and book publishers
Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster are among those named in the DOJ's investigation of e-book pricing. By Aaron M. Sheanin and William J. Newsom
The price of e-books on your Kindle has dropped by as much as one-third, and you can thank the U.S. Department of Justice.
On April 11, the DOJ filed an antitrust complaint against Apple, as well as publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, for conspiring to raise and fix the prices of electronic books, known as "e-books." At the same time, the DOJ filed a propos...
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