{"id":10863,"date":"2012-04-19T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2012-04-19T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:42:28","slug":"the-parties-to-the-ebook-price-fixing-law-suit-take-their-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10863","title":{"rendered":"The parties to the eBook price-fixing law-suit take their positions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"The parties position.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prospectusnews.com\/home\/publishers-apple-deny-price-fixing-allegations-1.2852278#.T5AoZqtSRDs\" target=\"_self\">Prospectus News<\/a><\/strong> updates us on the early positioning in the <strong>U.S. Department of Justice <\/strong>anti-trust lawsuit for price-fixing against <strong>Apple <\/strong>and publishers <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>, <strong>HarperCollins<\/strong>, <strong>the<strong> <\/strong><\/strong><strong>Hachette Book Group<\/strong>, <strong>Pearson <\/strong>and <strong>Macmillan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hachette<\/strong>, <strong>HarperCollins <\/strong>and<strong> Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong> have agreed to settle with the <strong>JOD. <\/strong><strong><strong>Hachette <\/strong>and<\/strong> <strong><strong>HarperCollins <\/strong><strong>is<\/strong><strong> <\/strong> <\/strong>prepared to pay back about\u00c2\u00a0<strong>$51-million<\/strong> from the estimated<strong> $100-million crime<\/strong>. <strong>Simon and Schuster<\/strong> is negotiating restitution with the states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple <\/strong>and the others appear to be willing to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospectus News updates us on the early positioning in the U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit for price-fixing against Apple and publishers Simon &amp; Schuster, HarperCollins, the Hachette Book Group, Pearson and Macmillan. Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon &amp; Schuster have agreed to settle with the JOD. Hachette and HarperCollins is prepared to pay back about\u00c2\u00a0$51-million &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10863\">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":[7,3,5,8,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863"}],"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=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10873,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}