Apple execs have made a «promising start» to fixing the company's antitrust compliance programme, says the monitor appointed by the court after the iPhone maker was found guilty of conspiring to
fix ebook prices last year.
Not exact matches
One
last fact: Even after the
price -
fixing issue called «agency
pricing» is settled and over, nothing prevents publishers from charging Apple and Amazon and any other
ebook channel that comes online between now and forever, whatever
price they want for an
ebook.
Apple
last year settled an
ebook price -
fixing antitrust case with the European Commission.
Like the Department of Justice in the United States, the European Commission, which began its formal antitrust investigation
last December, accused Apple and publishers of colluding to
fix ebook prices.
Apple goes on trial today as the
last man standing against charges of
ebook price fixing brought by the US government.
Last week, the U.S. Justice Dept. sued some of the largest publishers and Apple, accusing them of
eBook price fixing.