Previously redacted content in lawsuit against Apple shows that Steve Jobs told a publishing exec to join Apple in creating "a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99."
New details have surfaced in the class-action e-book price-fixing lawsuit against Apple, according to tech news site paidContent. The most notable revelation is an e-mail from Steve Jobs to one of the bookseller's executives that was previously redacted and is now public.
The gist of the case, which was filed in April and now has 29 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico involved, is an allegation that Apple and a group of book publishers illegally fixed e-book prices to "boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing."
The Department of Justice also filed a near-identical suit against the company and the same booksellers in April. The main difference in the two cases is that the states are seeking monetary restitution for consumers in the class-action lawsuit, according to paidContent. Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins -- three of the five booksellers targeted in this case -- have settled. Now the suit is just against Apple, Macmillan, and Penguin.
PaidContent got a copy of the amended complaint, which was released Friday, and published many previously redacted e-mails from high-level management at the booksellers and Apple. The news site writes that Apple co-founder and then CEO Jobs got directly involved in the e-book pricing negotiations in January 2010 and tried to convince one of the "Conspiring Publisher's" executives to commit to Apple's alleged deal.
New details have surfaced in the class-action e-book price-fixing lawsuit against Apple, according to tech news site paidContent. The most notable revelation is an e-mail from Steve Jobs to one of the bookseller's executives that was previously redacted and is now public.
The gist of the case, which was filed in April and now has 29 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico involved, is an allegation that Apple and a group of book publishers illegally fixed e-book prices to "boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing."
The Department of Justice also filed a near-identical suit against the company and the same booksellers in April. The main difference in the two cases is that the states are seeking monetary restitution for consumers in the class-action lawsuit, according to paidContent. Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins -- three of the five booksellers targeted in this case -- have settled. Now the suit is just against Apple, Macmillan, and Penguin.
PaidContent got a copy of the amended complaint, which was released Friday, and published many previously redacted e-mails from high-level management at the booksellers and Apple. The news site writes that Apple co-founder and then CEO Jobs got directly involved in the e-book pricing negotiations in January 2010 and tried to convince one of the "Conspiring Publisher's" executives to commit to Apple's alleged deal.
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