Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—March 26, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that Illinois e-book customers will begin receiving payments this week from settlements with five publishers in the alleged e-books price-fixing conspiracy. Madigan joined 32 other attorneys general in suing five of the six largest publishers and Apple for allegedly conspiring to drive up the price of e-books beginning in 2010 when Apple unveiled its first e-book reader, the iPad. The publishers—Hachette Book Group Inc., HarperCollins Publishers LLC,…
