CNET:
The Department of Justice “has a far better case against the publishers than Apple,” says Dominick Armentano, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Hartford and author of Antitrust and Monopoly who’s now affiliated with the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif. “If the CEOs of the various publishers got together in hotel rooms to discuss prices, they are sunk” and might as well settle, he says.
This is good news for consumers.
How’s that? If the publishers cut a deal, they will be fined a bunch of money (somebody just settled for $57 million but I forgot who). The money will then go to the DOJ, ripped off customers won’t see a dime.