Consumers interested in finding out what will happen in the anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and two large publishing houses will have a little longer to wait. A judge on the case set the trial date at June 3, 2013. The case will be a bench trial, meaning there will be no jury hearing the evidence, only the judge on the case, U.S. District Judge Deborah Cote. In other timeline … [Read more...] about Trial Date Set for Apple Anti-Trust Lawsuit
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Opinion: Amazon Bashing at BEA
There is a lot going on in the digital publishing industry at the moment, some of it inspiring, some of it shameful. While on the positive side, GoodEReader reported today from BookExpo on a school that went entirely to digital textbooks and cloud-based instructional materials, all in the space of one school year; on the negative side, attendees were urgently cautioned that … [Read more...] about Opinion: Amazon Bashing at BEA
Penguin, Macmillan Speak Out on Their Actions in DoJ Investigation
There has been an almost conspicuous lack of comments from the parties involved in the DoJ and class action lawsuits still pending against Apple and some of the Big Six publishers. Obviously, the parties involved cannot simply make outlandish statements while the investigations and court proceedings are still pending, leaving many to wonder what actually took place. Now, … [Read more...] about Penguin, Macmillan Speak Out on Their Actions in DoJ Investigation
Apple’s Price Fixing Suit May Have Hurt Indie Authors
Apple and five of the Big Six publishers are still undergoing a Department of Justice investigation into an alleged price fixing agreement in order to muscle out Amazon’s 90% control of the ebook market in 2010, just in time for the iPad to make its way to the market. But as the information on the supposed collusion begins to surface, a number of other affected parties have … [Read more...] about Apple’s Price Fixing Suit May Have Hurt Indie Authors