Book publishers Penguin and Macmillan are denying accusations of a conspiracy with Apple to fix the price of e-books, saying the claims are based on ìlittle circumstantial evidence.î According to the New York Times, the two companies said that the US government piled ìinnuendo on top of innuendoî in the federal complaint, with shots also fired at Amazon by saying the government ìsides with a monopolist.î