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Apple sued for $840 million over ebooks price fixing

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ANI Washington
Last Updated : Feb 02 2014 | 12:00 PM IST

A lawsuit filed against Apple has reportedly claimed damages worth 840 million dollars, for allegedly conspiring with publishing companies for e-book price fixing.

The lawsuit that was filed in New York by Steve Berman, an attorney leading a class action lawsuit on behalf of ebooks customers in 33 states, argued that Apple owed American ebooks customers a bare minimum of 231 million dollars in damages for raising the price of e-books across the industry for its own benefit.

In his evidence against the company, the advocate referred to last year's U.

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First Published: Feb 02 2014 | 11:52 AM IST

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