EU Commission to Investigate Pricing of eBooks

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM—Dec. 6, 2011—The European Commission has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether international book publishers have, possibly with the help of Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting the sale of eBooks in breach of EU antitrust rules. The publishers include Hachette Livre, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck.