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Tieng Anh Vui
A US judge has found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix the price of electronic books.
Manhattan Judge Denise Cote said the iPad maker "conspired to restrain trade".
Five publishers originally named as defendants alongside Apple have already reached settlements, including Penguin.
The US Department of Justice had said the conspiracy was designed to undercut online retailer Amazon's dominance of the fast-growing e-books market.
The judge ordered a new hearing to determine damages.
Penguin settled its case for $75m (£49m). Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster created a $69m fund for refunds to consumers, and Macmillan settled for $26m.
Judge Cote said: "The plaintiffs have shown that the publisher defendants conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices, and that Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy.
"Without Apple's orchestration of this conspiracy, it would not have succeeded as it did in the spring of 2010," she said.
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