{"id":12315,"date":"2012-12-16T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2012-12-16T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T20:18:49","slug":"european-commission-and-apple-reach-a-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12315","title":{"rendered":"European Commission and Apple reach a settlement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone wondering why there might be some hesitation by the mainstream regarding the wholesale adoption of the <strong>eBook<\/strong>, here is <a title=\"Apple and Co at it again.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/dec\/14\/european-commission-apple-ebook\" target=\"_self\"><strong>the Guardian<\/strong><\/a> story about <strong>Apple and publishers<\/strong> reaching a settlement with the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> regarding illegal price-fixing and collusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple and bandit gang <\/strong>were recently nailed for the same offense by the <strong>U.S. Department of Justice<\/strong>. This dirty dealing undermines consumer confidence in an industry that wants to explode around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone wondering why there might be some hesitation by the mainstream regarding the wholesale adoption of the eBook, here is the Guardian story about Apple and publishers reaching a settlement with the European Commission regarding illegal price-fixing and collusion. Apple and bandit gang were recently nailed for the same offense by the U.S. Department &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12315\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315"}],"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=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12321,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions\/12321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}