San Francisco: Apple has discarded the US Justice Department’s allegations that it conspired with publishers over electronic book pricing, calling the charges “simply not true”.
“The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon’s monopolistic grip on the publishing industry,” Natalie Kerris, Apple’s spokesperson, told the Wall Street Journal.
Ms Kerris also defended the current pricing structure as parallel to Apple’s mobile software store.
“Just as we have allowed developers to set prices on the App Store, publishers set prices on the iBookstore,” she said.
Apple and book publishers Macmillan and Penguin were sued this week by the US over claims they conspired to fix prices of digital books. Three other publishers named in the government’s antitrust lawsuit, CBS Corp’s Simon & Schuster, Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group and News Corp.’s HarperCollins, settled their cases after the government’s complaint was filed this week in federal court in Manhattan.
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