{"id":658466,"date":"2013-05-16T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=540290"},"modified":"2013-05-16T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:15:22","slug":"heres-the-potentially-damning-steve-jobs-email-doj-is-using-in-apple-ebook-price-fixing-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658466","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the potentially damning Steve Jobs email DoJ is using in Apple eBook price-fixing trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/apple-ebook-price-fixing-steve-jobs-email\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/steve-jobs-645.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple eBook Price Fixing\" title=\"Apple eBook Price Fixing\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple recently <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/15\/apple-ebook-price-fixing-denial\/\">denied allegations<\/a> from the United States Justice Department that suggested it was the ringleader in a conspiracy to fix eBook prices. The trial isn&#8217;t set to start until next month, but <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130515\/heres-that-steve-jobs-e-book-email-to-james-murdoch\/\"><em>AllThingsD<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130515\/heres-that-steve-jobs-e-book-email-to-james-murdoch\/\"> posted<\/a> a now-public document the DoJ plans to use as evidence when making its case. In the email from late <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> co-founder to\u00a0News Corporation&#8217;s James Murdoch, Jobs writes that News Corp. should &#8220;throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.&#8221; Apple stands accused of colluding with book publishers to stop eBook vendors like <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> from selling titles at discounted prices.\u00a0Apple is now the lone defendant in the price-fixing trial after the four book publishers originally indicted settled out of court with the DoJ. A copy of Jobs&#8217;s full email follows below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/apple-ebook-price-fixing-steve-jobs-email\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Y6-ZV-j_Y4g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple recently denied allegations from the United States Justice Department that suggested it was the ringleader in a conspiracy to fix eBook prices. The trial isn&#8217;t set to start until next month, but AllThingsD posted a now-public document the DoJ plans to use as evidence when making its case. In the email from late Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}