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Apple: Feds aim to “give Amazon a significant competitive advantage” in ebooks case

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Laura Hazard Owen's avatarGigaom

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

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The link below is to an article that reports on the latest developments concerning the Apple ebook pricing lawsuit.

For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/23/doj-offers-revised-settlement-apple-5-publishers/

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Article: Readmill

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The link below is to an article that takes a look at Readmill.

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/23/reading-networked-future-readmill-app

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Will the Digg Effect make a comeback?

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Om Malik's avatarGigaom

During the latter half of the naughties (2000s), Digg was one of the premier destinations on the web. If your story ended up on the front page of Digg, then you were rewarded by hundreds of thousands of page views, quite a bounty considering publishers big and small made (and still make money) for page-view based advertising. The traffic bump came to be known as the Digg effect (much like being Slashdotted.) Digg, obviously fell on hard times and it was just over a year ago, it was acquired by New York-based technology and media company, Betaworks.

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John Borthwick, chief executive of Betaworks, had a plan  — Digg still was a good brand and was an ideal vehicle for his vision of a social-data powered recommendation service and news reader. The early attempt at that social news reader, News.me, hadn’t really gone anywhere and they were ready to shut it…

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Apple e-book judge: ‘I don’t need to go into that further’

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Article: Catch-Up News on the Apple Ebook Lawsuit

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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/

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Article: iPhone Apps for Cataloguing Your Home Library

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The link below is to an article that looks at iPhone Apps for personal library cataloguing. 

For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2013/08/05/iphone-apps-for-cataloging-your-home-library/

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Apple slams government’s proposed punishment in ebook pricing case

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Laura Hazard Owen's avatarGigaom

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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Feds say Apple must give access to Amazon and Barnes & Noble e-bookstores

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Jeff John Roberts's avatarGigaom

The Justice Department is calling on a federal judge to force Apple(s aapl) to allow competitors in the ebook market to provide prices and links to their e-bookstores within apps on Apple’s devices, a move that is likely to anger the iPhone maker and increase the stakes in an anti-trust investigation that has already produced a damning judgment against Apple in early July.

In a press release and court filing on Friday, the government set out a series of proposals to fix what it says are Apple’s “brazen” efforts to orchestrate price-fixing among major publishers.

The remedies would come in the form of a final judgment to be entered in a high-profile trial between Apple and the Justice Department that concluded in July when U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had been the ringleader in a conspiracy with five publishers to increase prices and wrest control of the…

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