DoJ Investigates eBook Price Fixing

dave562 writes "The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust arm said it was looking into potentially unfair pricing practices by electronic booksellers, joining European regulators and state attorneys general in a widening probe of large U.S. and international e-book publishers. A Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed that the probe involved the possibility of 'anti-competitive practices involving e-book sales.' Attorneys general in Connecticut and, reportedly, Texas, have also begun inquiries into the way electronic booksellers price their wares, and whether companies such as Apple and Amazon have set up pricing practices that are ultimately harmful to consumers."

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Everything is ultimatly harmful to consumers

[slackware 3.6]

Otherwise there would be no profit from or reason to manufacture and sell anything. Ultimately someone's profit is someone else's loss.

Oh Noes ... Flood of Apple Fanboy postings

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, this is like petrol and a match to Apple Fanboys ;)

On behalf of the other 99% of the population...