E-bookDid Apple collude with publishers to jack up the price of e-books?

You betcha, U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote ruled in Manhattan today after a three-week trial.

NYT story here, WSJ there.

A damages trial will follow.

Apple pursued a nutty defense, which held that it and the publishers did no wrong

Talk about goofy.

Today's WSJ — The Wall Street Journal — includes a column that gets antitrust law so wrong you wonder why the paper's pundits, who include those who write the official editorials, bother.

The column in question takes aim at the U.S. Department of Justice's case that calls Apple and five book publishers