U.S. Goes Back to Publishers on Prices

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): Two years after three major book publishers settled a major civil antitrust lawsuit with the federal government, the Justice Department has gone back to the publishers asking about any recent pricing discussions they may have had with others in the industry, say people familiar with the situation.

The inquiries, made in recent weeks by letter to Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group, CBS Corp.'s Simon & Schuster and News Corp's HarperCollins Publishers, have created anxiety in the publishing industry. The inquiries...

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