{"id":10800,"date":"2012-04-09T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10800"},"modified":"2012-04-09T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T22:33:24","slug":"ebook-overpricing-to-cost-consumers-200-million-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10800","title":{"rendered":"eBook overpricing to cost consumers $200-million extra."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Apple and Publishers rip off consumers for $200-million\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9225990\/E_book_price_fixing_costs_big_bucks_consumer_group_claims\" target=\"_self\">Computerworld<\/a><\/strong> has a post outlining the <strong>Consumer Federation of America&#8217;s<\/strong> claims that price fixing on eBooks will cost the consumer <strong>$200 million<\/strong> extra for eBooks this year.<\/p>\n<p>The group encourages the\u00c2\u00a0<strong>US Justice Department<\/strong> to take &#8220;vigorous action&#8221; and pursue its anti-trust lawsuit against <strong>Apple <\/strong>and publishers: <strong>HarperCollins<\/strong><strong> Publishers<\/strong>, <strong>Hachette Book Group<\/strong>, <strong>Macmillan Publishers<\/strong>, <strong>Penguin Group <\/strong>and <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld has a post outlining the Consumer Federation of America&#8217;s claims that price fixing on eBooks will cost the consumer $200 million extra for eBooks this year. The group encourages the\u00c2\u00a0US Justice Department to take &#8220;vigorous action&#8221; and pursue its anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and publishers: HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10800\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800"}],"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=10800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10806,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}