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Zola to Roll Out Another E-Original
Online retailer Zola Books has added to its growing catalog of e-originals with the announcement that it will publish James Reston Jr.'s The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Real Target in Dallas in September.
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New AcademicPub Service Adds Library Content Deals
AcademicPub Custom College Plus, an automated legal coursepack service, is now offering Off The Shelf, a service that allows schools to integrate standing content licensing agreements into the AcademicPub service.
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Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial
After more than two years of legal maneuvering, Apple’s fate is now in the hands of federal judge Denise Cote, and the publishing industry’s long legal nightmare over the alleged price-fixing of e-books is all but over.
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'PW' Publishes 'The Battle of $9.99' E-book
Publishers Weekly has just published its first e-book,The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon and the "Big Six" Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight.
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In Parting Shot, Government Paints Apple as Amazon Copycat
With the director of Apple’s iBookstore in the U.S. Robert MacDonald on the stand, U.S. attorney Lawrence Buterman painted Apple’s iBookstore as a copycat of other digital book efforts—including Amazon’s.
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For Apple, Price-Fixing Trial Closes With a Win
In the final moments of Apple’s e-book price-fixing trial, federal Judge Denise Cote uttered the words Apple attorneys have surely longed to hear, saying the issues over the course of the trial “have somewhat shifted.”
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iBookstore Bestsellers: Three Self-Published Titles Crack Top 10
Inferno overtook Entwined for the #1 spot on Apple's iBookstore top-10 selling e-books, but three self-published titles landed on the bestseller list for the week ended June 17.
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Penguin Tests Social Reading Rewards Program
Penguin has unveiled a new program, aimed at raising the discoverability of its books, that will allow customers to read some of its most anticipated titles months before they go on sale.
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'The Battle of $9.99,' a PW Original E-book
A blow-by-blow account of how Apple and five of America's six largest publishers ended up on the wrong end of price-fixing allegations by the Department of Justice, from PW senior writer Andrew Richard Albanese.
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Coliloquy Adds Ridley Pearson, Rock Bottom Remainders E-Books
Digital publisher Coliloquy creates apps for YA favorite Ridley Pearson and the Rock Bottom Remainders band of authors.
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Eddy Cue Takes the Stand at Apple Trial
If there was a conspiracy to push Amazon off its $9.99 e-book pricing, Apple was not part of it, testified Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, in his long-anticipated turn on the stand at Apple’s e-book trial.
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iBookstore E-book Bestsellers: Week Ending June 10, 2013
Last week's #1 iBookstore seller, Inferno, slipped to #2 behind Sylvia Day's Entwined with You. Click through for the top 10.
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ABFFE Joins Campaign Against NSA Surveillance
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) has joined a number of other civil liberties organizations to protest the National Security Administration's surveillance of Americans' Internet activity and phone records.
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Apple Trial: Rupert Murdoch Wanted to ‘Screw’ Amazon
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray couldn’t recall very much of his early dealings with Apple as the company negotiated its entry into the e-book business, but his testimony suggests he may have been the shrewdest negotiator of the five publisher CEOs.
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Apple Attacks Google at Trial
For more than an hour, Apple attorney Orin Snyder aggressively dismantled Google's Director of Content Partnerships, but failed to get Amazon officials off their story.
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Nook Media Debuts Nook Snaps, Curated Digital Short Content
Nook Media is launching Nook Snaps, a bimonthly program of commissioned original fiction and narrative nonfiction of at least 5,000 words offered for sale at $1.99 each.
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Gersh Agency Partners With Diversion on New Imprint
Diversion Books is partnering with The Gersh Agency on a new imprint which will publish titles by the agency's clients.
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iBookstore E-book Bestsellers: Week Ending June 3, 2013
Apple has started to make available the weekly top 10 selling e-books in its iBookstore with Inferno appearing #1.
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Penguin's David Shanks Testifies at Apple Trial
Looking less than happy, Penguin Group USA CEO David Shanks testified and reluctantly acknowledged a succession of e-mails and calls that appear to show him and other Penguin executives acting in concert with his fellow Big Six CEOs to use the move to the agency model to raise e-book prices above the $9.99 price point.
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First Witness Testifies in Apple E-book Trial
Under questioning from U.S. Attorney Mark Ryan, Apple's associate general counsel, Kevin Saul, insisted that Apple’s consideration and eventual embrace of the agency model came only in response to publisher suggestions, as a way to get deals done.
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