{"id":4509,"date":"2020-03-24T13:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2020-03-24T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:14:32","slug":"commission-investigates-digital-book-price-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4509","title":{"rendered":"Commission investigates digital book price-fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Commission investigates digital book price-fixing<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Investigators raid firms suspected of anti-competitive activity.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Ian Wishart<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2011-03-02T03:19:14+00:00\">3\/2\/11, 3:19 AM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-04-12T20:54:21+00:00\">4\/12\/14, 8:54 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>European Commission antitrust officials have raided several companies in the e-book publishing sector.<\/p>\n<p>The firms, based in several member states, have not been named, but are suspected of participating in anti-competitive practices.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.nrlshops.com\/Others-Countries-Nrl\/FIJI' title='Cheap FIJI Rugby Jersey'>Cheap FIJI Rugby Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the Commission this morning (Wednesday) said: \u201cThe European Commission can confirm that on 1 March 2011 Commission officials initiated unannounced inspections at the premises of companies that are active in the e-book (electronic or digital books) publishing sector in several member states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission has reason to believe that the companies concerned may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and other restrictive business practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission officials were accompanied by their counterparts from the relevant national competition authorities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Commission said that unannounced inspections were a preliminary step into suspected anti-competitive practices and did not mean that the companies were guilty of anti-competitive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>There is no deadline for the Commission to complete the investigation. <BR><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Ian Wishart<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission investigates digital book price-fixing Investigators raid firms suspected of anti-competitive activity. European Voice By Ian Wishart 3\/2\/11, 3:19 AM CET Updated 4\/12\/14, 8:54 PM CET European Commission antitrust officials have raided several companies in the e-book publishing sector. The firms, based in several member states, have not been named, but are suspected of participating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}