Publishers Charged With E-Book Pact
April 20, 2012
Source: The New York Law Journal. Reprinted with permission.
The U.S. Department of Justice and several states claimed that Apple facilitated a conspiracy among book publishers to raise the retail prices of e-books and wrest pricing control away from Amazon. In another suit involving publishers—in this case magazine publishers—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated a conspiracy complaint and stated that the lower court’s inquiry under the plausibility pleading standard was “misdirected” because the court improperly chose one plausible inference over another.