{"id":9556,"date":"2012-04-11T16:50:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9556"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:59:52","slug":"us-govt-moves-against-apple-over-e-book-price-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/9556\/us-govt-moves-against-apple-over-e-book-price-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"US Govt. moves against Apple over e-book price fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc and several major publishers were accused by the U.S. government of conspiring to fix prices of e-books and limit retail price competition, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apple facilitated the publisher defendants&#8217; collective effort to end retail price competition by coordinating their transition to an agency model across all retailers,&#8221; according to the complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court by the anti-trust division of the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The publishers include Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin Group, Pearson Plc and Simon &amp; Schuster, a unit of CBS Corp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/9434\/doj-ready-to-take-on-apple-over-e-book-price-fixing\/\"><strong>DoJ ready to take on Apple over e-book price-fixing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/9226\/apple-holds-out-against-e-book-settlement\/\"><strong>Apple holds out against e-book settlement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/8816\/apple-e-book-settlement-talks-advance\/\"><strong>Apple e-book settlement talks advance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc and several major publishers were accused by the U.S. government of conspiring to fix prices of e-books and limit retail price competition, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,2176],"class_list":["post-9556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-e-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9562,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions\/9562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}