# Prof. Nicholas Economides on e-book price fixing

1 Faculty News April 11, 2012 ![Investor's Business Daily logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031423.jpg?itok=qKFHHK6U)>

Excerpt from [Investor's Business Daily](http://news.investors.com/article/607398/201204111748/apple-publishers-charged-in-ebook-price-fixing-case.htm) -- "'If you try to buy a book now, you often will see that the price of the electronic or digital version is higher than the price of the hard-cover version, which is completely absurd,' said [Nicholas Economides](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides), a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

[Read more](http://news.investors.com/article/607398/201204111748/apple-publishers-charged-in-ebook-price-fixing-case.htm)

Prof. Economides also discussed e-books on [*The New York Times* Bits blog](http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/apple-not-likely-to-be-a-loser-in-the-e-book-legal-fight/).