It must feel pretty lonely in the Apple legal department today. Media and wire service reports say that Apple is the only company that has not made an out of court settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in a price-fixing investigation over the price of e-books.
Macmillan has just settled with government investigators, so now book retailers, including Amazon, will be able to discount books from all the major publishers. Penguin, Hachette, Simon and Schuster and HarperCollins have
