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Apple Seeks to Knock Out E-book Class Action Case
Apple is seeking to kill the consumer class action against it—and a potential multi-million dollar damages award—by arguing that its entry into the e-book market was “pro-competitive” and beneficial to consumers.
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Podcast: Judge Rules In Google Books Scan Case
All’s fair in the Google Books Case; so says Judge Denny Chin who has issued a landmark ruling in the eight-year case brought by the Authors Guild.
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Google Wins: Court Issues a Ringing Endorsement of Google Books
In his long awaited final analysis, Judge Denny Chin offered a ringing endorsement of Google’s scanning program in dismissing the Authors Guild lawsuit against the search giant.
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Witness Publishes Lost Christie Novella
Agatha Christie wrote the novella, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly, in 1954, but decided to turn it into the full-length novel, Dead Man's Folly.
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Gutenberg Technology Gets $6.5 Million in Financing
Gutenberg Technology, parent company of multimedia e-book publishing platform MyEbookFactory 5.0, has secured $6.5 million in round B funding led by an investment from the venture capital firm of BNP Paridas.
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Court Denies Bid to Examine Amazon’s E-book Pricing
Judge Denise Cote this week denied RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn’s application to conduct his own “discovery” into Amazon’s allegedly “predatory” e-book pricing, setting up a potentially interesting final fairness hearing on December 6.
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Cornell University Press Launches Digital Imprint
Cornell Selects will publish short form e-books on current affairs, labor and workplace issues, and social issues.
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Judge Will Determine Apple Liability in E-book Case
In September, Judge Denise Cote had ordered the plaintiff states and Apple to confer on a stipulation regarding Apple's liability for civil penalties in the e-book price-fixing case, but the parties this week said those talks are at an impasse.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Grisham Still Number One
John Grisham's Sycamore Row was once again the bestselling paid book in Apple's iBooks store for the week ended November 11.
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Intel Acquires Kno
Intel, the giant semiconductor manufacturer, has acquired Kno, a software developer of educational content for multimedia devices, and will make the company a part of Intel Education.
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DailyLit Debuts Revamped Website
DailyLit, an online venture that delivers fiction to busy consumers via daily e-mail installments, is being relaunched with a redesigned Web site, new offerings of contemporary and classic literature and plans to add poetry and plays in the coming weeks.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Grisham Ousts Roth
Sycamore Row, John Grisham's return to the characters and setting featured in 1989's A Time to Kill, was the bestselling paid book in Apple's iBooks store for the week ended November 4.
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Former CQ Press Publisher Debuts Free Legal Resource
The site will include variety of services, including a job board, issues reporting, and a variety of blogs to inform and entertain—all free to users.
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Apple Remains Defiant in Latest Filings
Apple this week filed its answer to the class action complaints, in which it offered 10 initial defenses, and, as expected, conceded virtually none of the findings from its June trial.
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Amazon Unveils Early Access Program, Kindle First
In its third announcement this week about new, exclusive content available for the Kindle, Amazon has unveiled Kindle First, a program offering pre-publication access to Amazon Publishing titles to device owners.
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Kodansha, Crunchyroll Talk Global 'Simulpub' Manga
Crunchyroll Manga is live and PW talked with Kodansha International's Tatsuya Morimoto and Crunchyroll's Robert Newman to get more details about this new worldwide digital comics publishing venture.
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Amazon Introduces Kindle Countdown
Amazon announced a new Kindle program that provides limited-time promotional discounts on Kindle-exclusive titles.
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Study: E-books Settle In
E-books have become a “normal means of consuming content,” but the rapid growth of the format’s early years are over. This is one of the main takeaways from BISG's final installment of its four-year study, Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading.
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Gale Launches New Purchase Model for E-books
The new model will enable libraries to purchase e-books “based on actual usage,” allowing libraries to better “perform evidence-based collection development.”
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Amazon Launches ‘Day One’ Digital Literary Journal
Amazon Publishing announced plans to launch Day One, a weekly digital literary magazine focused on short fiction and poetry, including works from new authors and foreign authors in English translation.
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