The link below is to an article that reports on Apple’s appeal against the sentence handed down in the ebooks price fixing lawsuit.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/apple-appeals-ebook-collusion-charges_b41203
Category Archives: Apple Books/iBooks
Article: Apple and Autographing EBooks
The link below is to an article that reports on Apple’s bid to patent an ebook autographing system.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424912,00.asp
Article: iBooks Update
The link below is to an article that takes a look at recent updates to iBooks.
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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/09/27/apple-gives-ibooks-behind-scenes-update-new-toll-free-support-numbers-larger-image-sizes/
Judge lays down Apple’s punishment in ebooks case. It’s largely in line with what the feds wanted
After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple (s AAPL), the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against Apple in a filing released Friday. The Department of Justice will be happy, because the final injunction contains a lot of what it had asked for.
In July, Judge Denise Cote found Apple liable of conspiring with publishers to set ebook prices at the launch of the iBookstore.
“Apple did not conspire to fix ebook pricing,” company spokesman Tom Neumayr said in a statement. “The iBookstore gave customers more choice and injected much needed innovation and competition into the market. Apple will pursue an appeal of the injunction.”
The injunction, which is set to go into place in 30 days, will last for five years — but the court can extend it for “one or more one-year periods” after that, either on its own…
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Heads up, ebook buyers: Here’s how much you’re likely to get in the Apple ebook settlement
All five publishers who were accused of conspiring with Apple(s aapl) to set ebook prices at the launch of the iBookstore have settled with the federal government and with the states, and until now it has been unclear how much money customers would get from those settlements. On Friday, though, the states released new documentation laying out how much people who made qualifying purchases are likely to receive.
Short answer: If the states’ settlement with the publishers is finalized, customers who bought an ebook from any one of the five settling publishers between April 1, 2010 and May 1, 2012 will be eligible for a refund of up to $3.06 per book. If you’re one of those people, you’ll get that money as a credit to the digital bookstore where you purchased the book.
It’s taken awhile to even get to this “final” — but still preliminary — dollar amount…
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Apple: Feds aim to “give Amazon a significant competitive advantage” in ebooks case
In court filings posted Monday morning, Apple (s AAPL) attorney Orin Snyder responded to the Department of Justice’s revised proposed punishment for the tech company in the ebooks case. Snyder criticized the government for filing “a 12-page broadside masquerading as a brief,” and accused them of “seeking a remedy that would give Amazon a significant competitive advantage over Apple.” (The filings are embedded below.)
U.S. district judge Dense Cote found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to set ebook prices last month, and Apple is appealing that verdict. Nonetheless, it responded directly to various parts of the DOJ’s proposed injunction. The DOJ is arguing for a number of things: Changes in the way that Apple sells content in the App Store, including allowing ebook retailers to sell ebooks directly through their apps without Apple taking a cut; staggered negotiations with book publishers; and the creation of a third party monitor to…
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Article: Latest on Ebook Price Fixing Lawsuit
The link below is to an article that reports on the latest developments concerning the Apple ebook pricing lawsuit.
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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/23/doj-offers-revised-settlement-apple-5-publishers/
Apple e-book judge: ‘I don’t need to go into that further’
Article: Catch-Up News on the Apple Ebook Lawsuit
While I have been away the case against Apple has progressed to the ‘punishment’ stage and the link below is to an article reporting on that aspect of it.
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http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/judge-cote-devises-brave-punishments-for-apple-in-settlement-hearing/
Apple slams government’s proposed punishment in ebook pricing case
As expected, Apple(s AAPL) has expressed its strong disagreement with the federal government’s proposed remedies in the ebook pricing case, which the government outlined in a court filing released Friday morning.
In July, a federal judge found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix ebook prices.
Apple’s full court filing is embedded below and is available here as a PDF. Apple calls the proposed injunction “a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm,” and claimed it is “a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the Government to regulate Apple’s businesses and potentially affect Apple’s business relationships with thousands of partners across several markets.”
The government’s injunction seemingly forces Apple to abandon its in-app purchasing restrictions, at least for digital bookstores, by “allowing Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other ebook app providers to offer a simple…
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