U.S. accuses Apple, publishers of e-book price fixing
<p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/u-accuses-apple-publishers-e-book-price-fixing-143658970.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/PaJW59xob8rcsinMB_BBDA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-04-11T143658Z_1_CBRE83A14LW00_RTROPTP_2_CHINA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai" align="left" title="A man looks at his Apple iPad in front an Apple logo outside an Apple store in downtown Shanghai" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Apple Inc and several major publishers were accused by the U.S. government of conspiring to fix prices of e-books and limit retail price competition, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday. "Apple facilitated the publisher defendants' collective effort to end retail price competition by coordinating their transition to an agency model across all retailers," according to the complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court by the anti-trust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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