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Still more revelations from the amended lawsuit being brought against publishers by 31 states (see the earlier MobyLives report) have been posted, with commentary, by Jane Litte on the Dear Author website, a “romance review blog.” Among those revelations, as described and commented upon by…
Seventeen more states have joined the class-action lawsuit against the publishing industry over ebook pricing, and the release of the amended complaint has included some fascinating evidence previously redacted, including a detailed email from Steve Jobs about ebook pricing. In a report from PaidContent, which…
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — the company that publishes Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, J.R.R. Tolkien, all the Curious George books, and provides a false front for books from Amazon.com, published under HMH’s “New Harvest” imprint — revealed on Friday thatit had cut a deal with…
“Newly-discovered draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery‘s The Little Prince — that may shed new, political insight on the classic book — have been put on display at a Paris auction house for the first time,” and will be auctioned off next week, according to…
It’s finally happened: a major publishing house has announced it will abandon DRM protection for its ebooks. Yesterday afternoon Macmillan sci-fi imprint Tor/Forge announced in a release on Tor’s website that “by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free.” “Our…
Here’s a fun tidbit from the Department of Justice suit against Apple and five of the country’s largest book publishers: despite weeks of negotiations over agency pricing between Apple and publishers in New York in late 2009, Amazon doesn’t seem have to seen the agency model coming…
“The e-book price fixing allegations at the heart of a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice are now erupting on this side of the border,” reports Marsha Lederman in a story for Toronto’s Globe & Mail. She details a “proposed class-action lawsuit” filed in…
The book industry was abuzz yesterday with discussion of the decision by the Department of Justice to sue five of the Big Six publishers for their effort to stop Amazon.com. It wasn’t exactly a day of constructive conversation, though — most everyone was unable to…
The other shoe has dropped: As expected but still stupefying nonetheless, the Department of Justice yesterday, in an announcement made by Attorney General Eric Holder no less, said that it is indeed suing Apple and five of the Big Six publishers — HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon &…
Days after the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association (ABA) announced their support for the agency pricing model devised by five of the Big Six publishers and Apple — a development which has brought on the threat of a lawsuit from the Department of…