Los Angeles — One month after a New York federal judge ruled that Apple Inc. had conspired to fix electronic book prices, the Department of Justice has proposed a series of restrictions on Apple’s digital book sales.
The proposal includes a request for an external antitrust monitor paid for by Apple. The job of the monitor would be “to ensure that Apple’s internal antitrust compliance policies are sufficient to catch anticompetitive activities before they result in harm to consumers,” according to a Justice Department news release.
The monitor would work with an internal compliance officer, whom Apple would be required to hire. The compliance officer would report to Apple’s board audit committee.
