{"id":12351,"date":"2012-12-20T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T22:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2012-12-20T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T22:16:44","slug":"penguin-group-settles-in-doj-price-fixing-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=12351","title":{"rendered":"Penguin Group settles in DOJ price-fixing lawsuit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Penguin Group settles in DOJ anti-trust lawsuit.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2021481\/penguin-settles-e-book-price-fixing-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_self\">Publishing Group Penguin<\/a><\/strong> has decided to settle in the\u00c2\u00a0anti-trust price-fixing lawsuit\u00c2\u00a0leveled against it,\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Apple <\/strong>and a group of other publishers by the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<strong>U.S. Department of Justice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Conspirators<strong> Hachette Book Group<\/strong>,<strong> HarperCollins Publishers<\/strong>, and <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong> have already settled which leaves\u00c2\u00a0the still defiant ringleader  <strong>Apple<\/strong> and surviving crony <strong>Macmillan<\/strong> angling for a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishing Group Penguin has decided to settle in the\u00c2\u00a0anti-trust price-fixing lawsuit\u00c2\u00a0leveled against it,\u00c2\u00a0Apple and a group of other publishers by the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0U.S. Department of Justice. Conspirators Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon &amp; Schuster have already settled which leaves\u00c2\u00a0the still defiant ringleader Apple and surviving crony Macmillan angling for a fight.<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351"}],"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=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}