According to the Wall St Journal Apple Inc. broke its
silence about the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations that it colluded
with publishers over e-book pricing by calling the allegations "simply not
true."
Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris rebutted the charges
Thursday evening. “The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and
competition, breaking Amazon’s monopolistic grip on the publishing industry,”
she said, ending the company’s silence on the suit, filed Wednesday morning.
The antitrust suit
claims that Apple allowed publishers to set their own prices on Apple’s site,
but only if the publishers agreed not to price their e-books lower on any other
sites, Amazon included. The Apple spokeswoman compared the practice to that of
their app store: “Just as we’ve allowed developers to set prices on the app
store, publishers set prices on the iBookstore.”
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