{"id":10751,"date":"2012-04-02T07:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2012-04-02T07:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:25:18","slug":"settlement-expected-soon-in-us-dojapple-price-fixing-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10751","title":{"rendered":"Settlement expected soon in US DOJ\/Apple Price-fixing suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Settlement coming in DOJ\/Apple anti-trust suit.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.padgadget.com\/2012\/04\/01\/apple-e-book-publishers-and-doj-near-a-settlement\/\" target=\"_self\">PadGadget<\/a><\/strong> says that we&#8217;ll soon see a settlement in the <strong>US\u00c2\u00a0Department of Justice<\/strong> investigation into price-fixing by <strong>Apple<\/strong> and publishers: <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>, <strong>Penguin<\/strong>, <strong>Hachette Group<\/strong>, <strong>MacMillan<\/strong>, and <strong>HarperCollins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This should make the pricing of eBooks dependent on actual market forces, and &#8216;should&#8217; bring them down to favor a more competitive environment.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye <strong>agency pricing model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello satisfied consumer!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PadGadget says that we&#8217;ll soon see a settlement in the US\u00c2\u00a0Department of Justice investigation into price-fixing by Apple and publishers: Simon &amp; Schuster, Penguin, Hachette Group, MacMillan, and HarperCollins. This should make the pricing of eBooks dependent on actual market forces, and &#8216;should&#8217; bring them down to favor a more competitive environment. Goodbye agency pricing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10751\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751"}],"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=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10755,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions\/10755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}