“Five big publishers have been setting the price of their e-books, instead of retailers, like Amazon, which had been selling e-books below cost to attract people to the Kindle. It’s legal for publishers to set the price — unless they conspired to do so,” Martin Kaste reports for NPR. “Class action litigator Steve Berman says that’s what they did, with the help of Apple and the new iPad.”
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