{"id":11350,"date":"2012-07-23T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2012-07-23T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:28:48","slug":"ebook-revolution-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11350","title":{"rendered":"eBook Revolution Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple steals from Amazon to give to itself.\" href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2012\/07\/23\/should-justice-drop-the-apple-ebook-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Time<\/strong><\/a> offers more on the industry &#8220;push back&#8221; against the <strong>Department of Justice&#8217;s <\/strong>anti-trust lawsuit against <strong>Apple <\/strong>and its gang of <strong>price-fixing publishers<\/strong>. Apparently, connected individuals want the <strong>DOJ <\/strong>to drop the suit.<\/p>\n<p>It amazes me that <strong>Apple<\/strong>, the implicated publishers and their political cronies are actually trying to sell the &#8220;<em>we&#8217;re doing it for your own good<\/em>&#8221; excuse. This publishing cartel suggests that they are only robbing us now with their agency model of pricing to keep industry leader <strong>Amazon <\/strong>from robbing us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It is unbelievable that they can present this absurd argument, and it hints at the arrogant and criminal thinking behind the price-fixing scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Do they think we&#8217;re stupid? <strong>Robin Hood<\/strong> did not steal from the rich to pay for his <strong>Porsche<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time offers more on the industry &#8220;push back&#8221; against the Department of Justice&#8217;s anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers. Apparently, connected individuals want the DOJ to drop the suit. It amazes me that Apple, the implicated publishers and their political cronies are actually trying to sell the &#8220;we&#8217;re doing it for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11350\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350"}],"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=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11362,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}