{"id":13755,"date":"2013-07-10T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13755"},"modified":"2013-07-10T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:27:20","slug":"apple-guilty-of-price-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13755","title":{"rendered":"Apple Guilty of price-fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US District Judge Denise Cote<\/strong> said the following in a 160-page ruling. \u201cThe plaintiffs have shown that the publisher defendants conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices, and that Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy&#8230; Without Apple\u2019s orchestration of this conspiracy it would not have succeeded as it did in the spring of 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See more on the story at <a title=\"Apple Guilty of price fixing.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/apple-guilty-in-ebook-price-fix-trial-10289740\/\"><strong>Slashgear<\/strong><\/a>. (And just about everywhere else.)<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<strong>Apple&#8217;s<\/strong> co-conspirator&#8217;s rolled over for settlements early in this process it&#8217;s been hard to think of the <strong>iPad<\/strong> maker as anything but guilty. The question now is whether enough damage has been done to <strong>Apple<\/strong> (and the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>)?<\/p>\n<p>Will they follow their partners in crime and pay their fines, or will they dig a deeper hole with appeals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US District Judge Denise Cote said the following in a 160-page ruling. \u201cThe plaintiffs have shown that the publisher defendants conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices, and that Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy&#8230; Without Apple\u2019s orchestration of this conspiracy it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13755\">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":[7,4,5,8,12,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755"}],"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=13755"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13771,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755\/revisions\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}