Friday, April 13, 2012

US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices


Hot off the press!

Technology giant Apple and major book publishers are being sued by the US Department of Justice over the pricing of e-books.

The US accuses Apple and Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster and Penguin of colluding over the prices of e-books they sell.

This lawsuit is over the firms' move to the agency model where publishers rather than sellers set prices.

Read the whole article here.

And, what do you, e-book users, think about its prices? Who should set them? Publishers? Sellers?

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