The European Commission on Tuesday (6 December) said it is investigating possible collusion between Apple and five large publishing houses in the market for e-books, keeping prices artificially high.
It said the American electronics giant, whose popular iPad also serves as an e-book reader, may have helped the publishers - Hachette Livre (France), Harper Collins (USA), Simon & Schuster (USA), Penguin (UK) and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck (Germany) - to “engage in anti-competitive ...
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