APPLE E-BOOK PRICES CONSPIRACY: Antitrust Update By Charles Ware, Antitrust Attorney

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A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that Apple engaged in a conspiracy to raise e-book prices with 5 of the U.S.'s top book publishers in an effort to ensure the successful launch of its digital bookstore in 2010.

This decision hands Apple, a tech giant, a damaging loss that could affect the entire tech industry and force companies to rethink how they meet consumer demand for digital products.

For 160 pages, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote scolded Apple for violating antitrust law and colluding with five of the nation’s top book publishers to ensure the successful launch of its digital bookstore in 2010. “Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy,” Cote said in her ruling. “Without Apple’s orchestration of this conspiracy, it would not have succeeded as it did.”

The ruling was a stinging rebuke to Apple’s carefully cultivated public image of putting its customers first. The company’s tactics, Cote found, were motivated as much by its bottom line as its desire to introduce an innovative new product.

[The Washington Post/07-11-2013/p.A12; The Wall Street Journal (WSJ),07-11-2013; The New York Times/07-11-2013]

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