A federal judge on May 15 refused to dismiss a consumers’ class-action lawsuit action that claims Apple conspired with Simon & Schuster Inc., Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group USA, Macmillan, and HarperCollins to break Amazon’s dominance in the eBook market and engineer a wholesale increase in eBook prices.
“The Complaint describes specific conversations from which it is fair to infer that the Publisher Defendants had agreed among themselves to adopt a joint strategy to force an increase in the price of eBooks,” Southern District Judge Denise Cote (See Profile) wrote in In re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litig., 11 MD 2293.
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