In the end Apple was guilty of the trial in which it was accused of conspire with five publishers to increase the price of eBooks at will, e-books. The price set in this lawsuit amounts to $ 450 million and is prompted by the ruling of the Second Court of Appeals, which agreed with a lower court blaming the company with the bitten apple of creating a conspiracy with publishers and of this way to eliminate competition with e-books.
This means that the consumer class action lawsuit imposed on Apple for the price increase on eBooks wins, and ultimately it will be these who share the figure due to the price increase on the books they bought. At the moment some names of publishers that conspired with Apple are known, these were as explained by the sentence of the United States Department of Justice: Penguin Group Inc, Simon & Schuster Inc, of CBS Corp and Macmillan, of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Hachette Book Group Inc, of Lagardere SCA; HarperCollins Publishers LLC, of News Corp.
We are clear that this sentence can lessen Apple's desire to enter more fully into this eBook sector, but what will happen for sure is that the Cupertino guys will think twice about possible agreements with the prices of third-party products to 'annoy' other companies.