U.S., European antitrust regulators look at e-books

The United States is looking into allegations that the electronic book industry has violated antitrust law, a top Justice Department official said on Wednesday. In an oversight hearing, the Justice Department's top antitrust official Sharis Pozen, in an roundup of her division's work, said: "We are ...

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