E-book publishers lose bid to kill antitrust suit
On Tuesday, Apple and five book publishers - HarperCollins, Hachette SA, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, and Macmillan - lost their bid to kill the antitrust lawsuit which accuses them of violation of federal and California state law by conniving to increase the price of e-books.
With the U. S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan ruling that the e-book publishers broke the law in setting e-book prices, the defendants have lost their bid to throw out the antitrust complaint by plaintiffs who are seeking to represent a class of consumers.











