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Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch Email Exchange Used As Evidence in DOJ Apple Antitrust Case
- The Verge, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:16 AM
While all of the publishers involved in an eBook pricing antitrust case have settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Apple refuses to settle the case and continues to fight. Yesterday, the DOJ introduced an email exchange between Apple's founder Steve Jobs and News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch (News Corp. owns HarperCollins, one of the publishers involved in the suit), as evidence of price fixing. In the email, Jobs wrote to Murdoch that he could continue to have Amazon price eBooks at $9.99 or "throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream ebooks market at $12.99 and $14.99."
