{"id":8129,"date":"2011-03-03T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2011-03-03T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:24:31","slug":"eu-officials-raid-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8129","title":{"rendered":"EU Officials Raid Publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> for a link to a post at <a title=\"EU Officals Raid Publishers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebookmagazine.co.uk\/eu-officials-in-ebook-pricing-raids\/20111375\" target=\"_self\"><strong>eBookMagazine<\/strong><\/a> regarding European Union Officials raiding several publishers because &#8220;the Commission has reason to believe that the companies concerned may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and other restrictive business practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These raids follow news of the UK Office of Fair Trading\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investigating the agency pricing model. Under the model, publishers set the price and force retailers to accept a set commission on the sale, thereby fixing the price at all retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Jorgen for a link to a post at eBookMagazine regarding European Union Officials raiding several publishers because &#8220;the Commission has reason to believe that the companies concerned may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and other restrictive business practices.&#8221; These raids follow news of the UK Office of Fair Trading\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investigating the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8129\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129"}],"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=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8132,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}