{"id":196,"date":"2012-12-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2012\/12\/20\/penguin-group-makes-separate-peace-on-ebook-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2012-12-20T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:00:00","slug":"penguin-group-makes-separate-peace-on-ebook-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2012\/12\/20\/penguin-group-makes-separate-peace-on-ebook-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin Group Makes Separate Peace on Ebook Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>(Huffington Post) WASHINGTON &#8212; The Justice Department announced Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc. in its lawsuit accusing the nation&#8217;s largest book publishers of colluding with Apple Inc. to raise e-book prices on customers.<\/div>\n<div>The settlement, if approved by a federal judge, leaves Apple and Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, which does business as Macmillan, as the only defendants standing against the federal government&#8217;s charges that Apple, the multimedia and computer giant, conspired with several publishers in the fall of 2009 to force e-book prices several dollars above the $9.99 charged by Amazon.com on its popular Kindle device.<\/div>\n<div>The Justice Department, which sued in April, settled with Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers LLC and Simon &#038; Schuster Inc. earlier this year. The trial is scheduled to begin in June.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The proposed settlement with Penguin will be an important step toward undoing the harm caused by the publishers&#8217; anticompetitive conduct and restoring retail price competition so consumers can pay lower prices for Penguin&#8217;s e-books,&#8221; said Jamillia Ferris, chief of staff and counsel at the Justice Department&#8217;s antitrust division.<\/div>\n<div>Apple Inc. has said the government&#8217;s accusation that it conspired with major book publishers to raise the price of e-books is untrue.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Huffington Post) WASHINGTON &#8212; The Justice Department announced Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc. in its lawsuit accusing the nation&#8217;s largest book publishers of colluding with Apple Inc. to raise e-book prices on customers. The settlement, if approved by a federal judge, leaves Apple and Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, which does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,149,216,221,283,292,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ebooks","category-hachette-book-group","category-harpercollins-publishers-llc","category-justice-department","category-kindle","category-settlement-with-penguin-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}