The U.S. government has sued Apple and the major book publishers today on claims of collusion and anti-trust in the ebook market.
Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster were all sued in New York district court, with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins already settling their suits.
Apple and Macmillan have refused to settle with the Justice Department ... [ read the full article ]
Please read the original article before posting your comments.
I so hope Apple loses this because there's no doubt in my mind that they colluded. Frakkin' greedy jagoffs!!
Again...it's no wonder that a company that gears its products to simpleminded, simpleton people is potentially the first EVER company worth a trillion dollars. Perfect proof that the world is majority staked by idiots. Myself and a few that I know being the definitive exception! Isn't having the business of non-thinkers enough Apple???......now you have to go and price fix.
Originally posted by getanacct:Apple deserves to get their butt handed to them. They shouldn't set the market price, the consumers should.
I hope Amazon and the other companies win on this.
The consumers are or else Apple wouldn't have a market, of course they are the same people that love AOL too or like I've said before, brainwashed by our school systems.
I've always believed that electronic editions of books should be sold at a price that is cheaper then for a physical version of it.
With an electronic version of it, the infrastructure for delivering it need not be as extensive as would be needed for a physical version of it. Not to mention that with the DRM that is part of every electronic book, you cannot pass this on to your friends or family, or even resell it, when you are finished with it. There should something to compensate for that.
