What Paul Thurrott failed to link to, but TUAW found, is this press release that details the ebook investigation surrounding iBooks:
>The European Commission has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether international publishers Hachette Livre (Lagardère Publishing, France), Harper Collins (News Corp., USA), Simon & Schuster (CBS Corp., USA), Penguin (Pearson Group, United Kingdom) and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck (owner of inter alia Macmillan, Germany) have, possibly with the help of Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting the sale of e-books in the European Economic Area (EEA)1, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
This paints a much less “Apple is evil” sentiment than [Thurrott’s stupid post did](http://brooksreview.net/2011/12/dickhead/).