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Apple Fires Back at "Draconian" DoJ Proposals
The strong language of Apple's opposition to the DoJ's proposed price-fixing remedy plays down a major weakness of its case—the "non-credible" testimony of key executives during its trial.
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Apple Calls DoJ Proposals Draconian
Apple replied quickly to the Department of Justice’s proposals for injunctive relief in the e-book price fixing case, calling the injunction “a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm.”
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DoJ Seeks Comprehensive Injunction in Apple E-book Case
Apple would be prohibited from “entering into agreements with suppliers of e-books, music, movies, television shows or other content that are likely to increase the prices at which Apple’s competitor retailers may sell that content.”
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Suvudu Launches New Writing Community
Suvudu, a Random House online destination for science fiction and fantasy fans established in 2008, announced the launch of a new writing community for its users, Suvudu Universe.
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Ingram Backs “Remix” Startup Slicebooks
Using Slicebooks, publishers can “remix” front and backlist titles into new packages, price and sell and chapters and sections individually online, and a new e-book “Remix Widget,” will give consumers the ability to create custom e-books.”
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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Cuckoo's Calling' Still at Number One
For the second week in a row, J.K. Rowling's pseudonymously written novel is the top selling paid e-book in Apple's iBooks e-bookstore, for the week ending July 29.
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Distribution: Ingram Adds APL and Maiden Lane Press as Clients
Ingram Publisher Services Inc., announced the addition of two new publisher clients, APL Publishing and Maiden Lane Press.
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Anomaly Publishing Returns with ‘Shifter’
Skip Brittenham and Brian Haberlin, the creative team that produced Anomaly, an ambitious sci-fi/AR-enhanced graphic novel released last year, were on hand at Comic-Con to promote Shifter: The Graphic Novel, the latest release in a line of painted, multimedia-enriched graphic novels.
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Kindle Singles: Growing, but Maintains Focus
The Kindle Singles store, according to its editor David Blum, is “like a bookstore where the manager also edits the books.” Blum is that manager-editor, and under his guidance the store has grown to feature nearly 400 works since launching in January 2011.
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Women's Prize Winner to Publish E-Book Original Short Story
Madeline Miller will be releasing an e-book original short story on Aug. 13 with HarperCollins.
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Kindle Singles Announces Interview Series
Amazon.com has announced “The Kindle Singles Interview,” a new series on the Kindle Singles platform.
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AcademicPub Launches Faculty Self-Publishing Service
AcademicPub is launching Express Books, a self-publishing service that will allow professors to publish their own books and distribute them through AcademicPub’s e-commerce platform.
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BookVibe Turns Twitter Data into Book Discovery Tool
BookVibe allows users to search their tweets and extract the books that are being discussed by the people they follow on Twitter.
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Publishers Have Paid $166 Million to Settle E-book Claims
In all, the total damages were calculated at $218,883,000, with 76% of those funds collected. Penguin and Macmillan, meanwhile, appear to have paid a premium for being the last two publishers to settle.
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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Cuckoo's Calling' Hits Number One
After J.K. Rowling was revealed to be the author of The Cuckoo's Calling, the novel was the top selling paid e-book in Apple's iBookstore.
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Book Country Launches Revamped Site
Self-publishing community Book Country launches its revamped site this week.
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Hurix Joins the IMS Global Learning Consortium
Mumbai-based Hurix, a leading digital solutions company, is now an alliance member of IMS Global Learning Consortium.
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Scholastic and Comixology Ink Digital Distribution Pact
Scholastic has reached an agreement with digital comics distributor Comixology to make graphic novels from its Graphix imprint, available through the Comixology platform on iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle, and the web.
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Campaign for Reader Privacy Renews Call to Amend Patriot Act
The Campaign for Reader Privacy released a statement today calling on Congress to "pass legislation to restore privacy protections."
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