We Know What You Did During Spring Break

[Commentary] Although Headlines staff were away April 2-6, we still collected and summarized the major news from that week. So this week’s round up is really a quick look at the news of the past two weeks. In perhaps the biggest news in weeks – or, at least, the most headlines-grabbing news – the Department of Justice announced that it has reached a settlement with three of the largest book publishers in the United States -- Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers and Simon & Schuster -- and will continue to litigate against Apple and two other publishers -- Holtzbrinck Publishers, which does business as Macmillan, and Penguin Group (USA) -- for conspiring to end e-book retailers’ freedom to compete on price, take control of pricing from e-book retailers and substantially increase the prices that consumers pay for e-books. The department said that the publishers prevented retail price competition resulting in consumers paying millions of dollars more for their e-books.