Apple officially appeals in e-book pricing case

Apple has filed its appeal against federal judge Denise Cote’s verdict in the e-book pricing case.

Apple seeks to overturn Judge Cote’s July verdict that it was guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix e-book prices, as well as the September 6 injunction that prohibits Apple from including most-favored-nation clauses in its e-book contracts for five years and requires it to be monitored by a court-appointed external monitor. The notice of the appeal was filed with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, but Apple doesn’t have to submit the full text of the appeal until early 2014 when it lays out its arguments in appeals court. It’s fair to assume, however, that Apple will bring up many of the same issues it raised in an August letter to Judge Cote, in which it outlined the arguments it planned to raise on appeal.