Critics take aim at Judge Cote’s ruling in book publishers’ price fixing case

(September 17, 2012) -- Even as New York federal district court judge Denise Cote recently put her stamp of approval on a settlement between the Justice Department and three book publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster—for their collusion in fixing e-book prices, the reverberations from the case continue. Critics are unloading on her ruling, the Justice Department’s handling of the case and at what they see as Amazon’s predatory behavior....

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