{"id":10813,"date":"2012-04-11T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2012-04-11T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:54:23","slug":"us-department-of-justice-to-sue-apple-and-price-fixing-cronies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10813","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of Justice to sue Apple and price-fixing cronies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Apple set to scrap with Department of Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2012\/04\/11\/sued-doj-brings-e-book-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple-publishers\/\" target=\"_self\">Time<\/a><\/strong> reports that the <strong>U.S. Department of Justice <\/strong>will go ahead with an anti-trust lawsuit against <strong>Apple <\/strong>and publishers <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>, <strong>HarperCollins<\/strong>, <strong>the Hachette Book Group<\/strong>, <strong>Pearson and Macmillan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This after <strong>Apple <\/strong>held out against a settlement that was already accepted by some of its price-fixing co-conspirators. It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess why <strong>Apple <\/strong>would attempt to defend a sinking ship since a settlement for some of the principals is an admission of guilt for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time reports that the U.S. Department of Justice will go ahead with an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and publishers Simon &amp; Schuster, HarperCollins, the Hachette Book Group, Pearson and Macmillan. This after Apple held out against a settlement that was already accepted by some of its price-fixing co-conspirators. It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess why Apple would attempt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10813\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813"}],"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=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10817,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions\/10817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}