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I simply have to ask the following questions.
1. Was an effort made to raise prices for e-books?
2. Was a concerted effort among parties involved to raise those prices?
If both of those are yes, we have an anti-trust situation. 1. was yes, I watched it happen. 2. is a question of evidence. One cannot claim natural market forces, such as a shortage of labor or materials, to have caused the need to raise e-book prices. E-books are infinitely reproducible, at trivial cost. Was there collusion? If there was collusion, then all parties to the collusion are equally culpable, even those starting with zero market share.
Note, none of these questions have any name attached to them...
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