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DoJ Files Suit Against Apple, Ebook Publishers

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @04:00AM from the project-gutenberg-accused-of-price-fixing dept.

forkfail writes "The Department of Justice has filed suit against Apple and a number of book publishers, including Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, claiming that they worked in collusion to artificially rig prices on eBooks."

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Having solved all other problems by colin_faber · 2012-04-11 04:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They finally decide to tackel the horrific affects of book publisher collution with Apple.
1. Re:Having solved all other problems by Moryath · 2012-04-11 04:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  WRONG!
  Right here, moron.
  The problem is that in the 1980s and 1990s, Republicans were GLEEFULLY GETTING SPECULATION REGULATIONS REPEALED. It's the same sort of crap in other markets (see: Republican repeal of Glass-Steagal separation of banking and stock market) that caused the Bush Depression.