The separate lawsuit alleging horizontal conspiracy against Apple and the original five agency publishers has been filed–and will be litigated–in Texas, where the Attorney General’s office began a “non-public investigation” in March 2010 (first revealed by PL in June 2010). The filing dovetails in many respects with the Department of Justice’s Federal lawsuit, though they depict portions of the story in their own way. By their telling it was “by no later than the end of summer 2009” that the “conspiring publishers reached an agreement that something had to be done to end Amazon’s $9.99 pricing of NYT-bestsellers.” Among other […]
