Apple’s Last Chance to Win eBook Conspiracy Case Lies with Securing Supreme Court Hearing
Summary
Despite having the world’s most popular smartphone model, and for a while a near monopoly on the tablet market, Apple has not been able make much of a dent in either mobile advertising or ebook sales. The U.S. Department of Justice, along with 33 states, filed suit accusing Apple of conspiring with five major publishers to raise the retail prices of ebooks. Amazon, though, has continued to dominate the market, while Apple has gone backwards with electronic book, magazine and newspaper sales, this year officially giving up on the Newsstand (it actually gave up on it in late 2013). This is the same problem, in reverse, that initially existed in digital magazines and newspapers – developers thought Apple first because they dominated the smartphone and tablet markets. But as Apple did not introduce a cross-platform publishing solution for the newspaper and magazine markets either, leaving it to Adobe, Mag+, Quark, Aquafadas and others to do so, the result was that Android app numbers grew.
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