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Tag: Apple

Is Apple the next Microsoft?

The 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. Without Apple’s orchestration of this conspiracy, it would not have succeeded as it did in the Spring of 2010.

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Why Apple’s iPad Textbooks Cost 5x More Than Print? By a former Apple employee

Apple’s iPad Textbooks Cost 5x More Than Print.

Scheme to set artificially high ebook prices orchestrated by Steve Jobs

The US government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme to set artificially high ebook prices with some of the largest American publishers, which have already settled the case.

THE APPLENIZATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS