In April this year, Apple and five major U.S. publishers (Penguin, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Hachette Penguin) faced an investigation by the Justice Department United States, which must determine whether all these companies agreed to price their ebooks in iBooks. If so, the companies involved in such investigation shall be accused of having carried out market monopoly practices.
The applicants applied last May that the official biographer of Steve Jobs, the journalist Walter Isaacson, the judge deliver personal notes taken in interviews with Steve Jobs to give more information in the investigation. The researchers wanted to find statements to confirm Jobs' Apple's monopolistic strategy.
However, Walter Isaacson refused and his counsel argued that there was no reference to it in the notes of his client. Now the judge handling the case has upheld the journalist and said you can not use their personal notes as evidence for trial.
Apple said at the time that gave freely to publishers to set prices for their e-books, as happens now with the developers on the App Store, you can set any price for their applications.
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Source- 9to5Mac
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