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Apple

• DOJ calls Apple “ringmaster” in pretrial filings

  Two weeks before United States of America vs. Apple Inc., the infamous e-book price-fixing case originally brought against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, goes to trial, the… Read more »

• Confusion ensues after author wrongfully claims Apple banned his book

  On Tuesday, award-winning comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan announced, via his publisher’s Tumblr page, that Apple had banned the latest installment of his brilliant Saga series “because of two postage stamp-sized… Read more »

• Apple head Tim Cook forced to testify in DOJ case

  U.S. District Judge Denise Cote has ruled that Tim Cook will have to testify in the Justice Department case against Apple over allegations of e-book price-fixing. An article by Adi… Read more »

• Amazon kills 70% royalties for authors who won’t play ball on pricing

  A Daily Telegraph story reports that Amazon is cutting royalties for self-published works priced above $9.99. The current royalty rate is 70% of all sales, so long as the price… Read more »

• Germany launches an Amazon competitor

  On Friday, three of Germany’s biggest booksellers, along with its biggest media company and its biggest telecom company, debuted an e-book distribution platform and an e-reader intended to compete with… Read more »

• Turning the page … to a new patent for Apple

  Last Friday, Nick Bilton declared “Apple Now Owns the Page Turn” in a post on the New York Times Bits blog, referring to a new patent giving rights to the finger… Read more »

• Apple censors a cover … one that looks like many others

  Apple has removed Salwa Al Neimi’s novel The Proof of the Honey from its iBookstore, citing the inappropriateness of the book’s cover. According to a post on publisher Europa Editions’ Facebook… 1 / Read more »

• Here’s to the crazy ones …

  To mark its tenth anniversary, Melville House has announced the “Think Differently” campaign with a new video that parodies the first “Think Different” commercial from Apple.… Read more »

• In its case against publishers for violating antitrust law, DOJ charged with “flagrant” violation of … antitrust law

  Everyone seems to agree: The Justice Department’s lawsuit against the publishing industry and Apple for antitrust infractions has violated the laws of logic. Now, it seems, it has also violated… Read more »

• Trial date set for U.S. v. Apple

  A federal judge in New York has set a trial date of June 3, 2013 for U.S. v. Apple, 12-cv-02826, the e-book price-fixing action brought by the Department of Justice against… Read more »