{"id":10608,"date":"2012-03-13T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2012-03-13T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:35:09","slug":"is-amazon-the-big-winner-in-anti-trust-suit-against-apple-and-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10608","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon the big winner in anti-trust suit against Apple and publishers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a title=\"Amazon the big winner in anti-trust lawsuit.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2012\/0312\/Right-pricing-e-books-Is-the-government-actually-discouraging-competition\" target=\"_self\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/em><\/strong> reports on an open letter by <strong>Authors Guild President Scott Turow<\/strong> on the continuing drama surrounding \u00c2\u00a0<strong>Apple <\/strong>and the gang of <strong>5 New York publishers<\/strong> (<strong>Hachette Book Group<\/strong>, <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>, <strong>MacMillan<\/strong>, <strong>Penguin<\/strong>, and <strong>Harper Collins<\/strong>) who are the subject of a potential anti-trust lawsuit, in which <strong>Turow <\/strong>wonders if the government is inadvertently tipping the scales in Amazon&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor reports on an open letter by Authors Guild President Scott Turow on the continuing drama surrounding \u00c2\u00a0Apple and the gang of 5 New York publishers (Hachette Book Group, Simon &amp; Schuster, MacMillan, Penguin, and Harper Collins) who are the subject of a potential anti-trust lawsuit, in which Turow wonders if the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10608\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10611,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions\/10611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}