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Court Rejects Motions to Dismiss Class Action Against Apple, Publishers In a decision handed down Tuesday, Judge Denise Cote denied motions by Apple and five publishers seeking to dismiss the class action lawsuit brought against them for what the suit contends is fixing e-book prices when they moved to the agency pricing model.

Follett To Distribute Inkling Digital Textbooks Inkling, a multimedia textbook publishing platform for the iPad, has reached an agreement with Follett Higher Education Group to distribute Inkling digital textbooks through the more than 900 college bookstores it operates.

A Conversation With Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes said that politics tends to be ideological, religion tends to be dogmatic, but literature is always ambiguous. PW recently talked to the author, who unexpectedly died May 15, about his work and his new novel, Vlad, which comes out in July from Dalkey Archive Press.

Crown Hires Ambrosi as V-P, Brand Publishing Project Director Following yesterday's announcement that Kimberly Snead will fill the new role of director of brand strategy at Crown, the publisher has announced May 15 that Leigh Ann Ambrosi will join as v-p, brand publishing project director, reporting to Tina Constable.

Banned 'Looking for Alaska' Gets Defense from Anti-Censorship Groups John Green’s young adult novel Looking for Alaska once more became the target of censorship when it was recently banned from classrooms in Sumner County, Tenn.

Bookmasters Titles to Be Available on EBM Bookmasters is making its distribution clients’ more than 50,000 POD titles available through the EBM “digital-to-print at retail” sales channel.

Sister Spit Books Becomes New Imprint of City Lights Publishers San Francisco author and literary activist Michelle Tea has teamed up with City Lights Publishing to launch the Sister Spit imprint in September with Tea's Sister Spit: Writings, Rants, and Reminiscence.