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Book industry under siege: Copycat lawsuits cropping up around the world “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… Read more »
The DOJ's publishers lawsuitMobyLives’ coverage of the DOJ lawsuit
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If publishers dropped DRM, would it help them fight Amazon? Over at Gigaom, Mathew Ingram suggests that publishers who mandate the use of DRM on ebooks may, more than anything else, be helping Amazon. The idea is that anti-piracy software doesn’t actually… Read more »
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Rumored: Apple may settle EU case “Apple has offered to settle its row over ebook price fixing in Europe, despite vowing to fight a parallel case in America because the charges are ‘simply not true,’” says… Read more »
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Queensland Museum discovers 3,000 year old fragments from Egyptian Book of the Dead In an unlikely — and slightly disconcerting — story, the Queensland Museum located in Brisbane, Australia, has discovered that its collection houses a fragment from a 3,000-year-old Egyptian manuscript that… Read more »
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Tonight is World Book Night BR Myers on The Art of Fielding Steig Larsson’s journalism informed his fiction Making use of “Whimsical Visions” On publishing in new literary magazines Amazon’s… Read more »
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Brenner and God Goodreads Giveaway Melville International Crime is publishing Wolf Haas’ Brenner and God in June. This is the first time a title from this wildly popular series will be released in the United States. Haas… Read more »
