Apple is charged for damages of approximately 85.8 billion yen due to illegal operation of electronic book prices

ByJohan Larsson

In July 2013, Apple declared a violation of Antitrust Act (Antitrust Law) as Apple made illegal price manipulation of electronic books. In response, Apple filed an appeal and appealed, but in the trial to determine the amount of damages caused by the law violation, plaintiffs asked Apple for $ 840 million (about 85.8 billion yen) It is obvious that we are making claims for.

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In 2010, Apple has launched the iBooks Store service, but in a trial conducted in July 2013, Apple and the publishing industry illegally lifted the price of e-books in violation of antitrust law I have decided that I did. According to the judge, "The price of some e-books has increased by 50% in the market at the time of conspiracy," Apple said "Although Amazon's collapse of Amazon's monopoly position in the publishing industry, the illegality There was no appeal "and appeals process was done.


The plaintiff's state attorney general and 33 state and consumer representative lawyers said that the amount of damages arising from price manipulation of e-books was at least $ 280 million (about 28.6 billion yen), convicted in previous trials Based on the ruling, a document stating that he wishes to pay an order of 840 million dollars (about 85.8 billion yen), three times that of Apple, as broadly affecting the antitrust law violation I handed it to the federal court of Manhattan.

Apple's spokesperson refuses to comment on this matter.