Apple E-Books Price-Fixing Antitrust Suit Set for Trial in 2013
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Apple Inc. and book publishers that haven’t settled e-book price-fixing claims will face trial next year in a case filed by the U.S. Justice Department, a federal judge in New York decided.
The U.S. joined 15 states and Puerto Rico in claiming Apple, CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster, Lagardère SCA’s Hachette Book Group, News Corp.’s HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin colluded to fix prices of e-books. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is presiding over the consolidated lawsuits in federal court in Manhattan, set the trial for June 3, 2013.