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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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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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Article: Book Donations

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The link below is to an article that considers the issue of donating books.

For more visit:
http://unclutterer.com/2013/08/02/books-to-donate-or-not-to-donate/

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Article: Book/Ebook Length

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The link below is to an article that considers the length of books/ebooks.

For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/writing/feel-the-extra-length-the-issue-of-size-in-writing/

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Article: Book Editing

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The link below is to an article that looks at book editing.

For more visit:
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/08/how-to-edit-your-own-book/

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Article: Kindle or Traditional Book?

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The link below is to an article that considers one man’s choice between the Kindle or traditional book.

For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/aug/02/kindle-paper-books-bookseller-e-reader

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Article: Kansas City Library’s Giant Bookshelf

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The link below is to an article (with photos) on the Kansas City Library and its giant bookshelf.

For more visit:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kansas-city-library-s-giant-bookshelf

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Article: A Good Librarian

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The link below is to an article that asks the question, ‘what makes a good librarian?’

For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/what-makes-a-good-librarian_b75173

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Law firm that leaked J.K. Rowling’s identity will make big donation to her chosen charity

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Laura Hazard Owen's avatarGigaom

J. K. Rowling announced Wednesday that she’ll donate the royalties from The Cuckoo’s Calling, the mystery that she wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, to charity for three years, starting from July 14 — the day she was outed as the book’s author. The charity is the Army Benevolent Fund. In addition, Rowling sued the London law firm that was responsible for giving her secret away (a partner there told his wife’s best friend, who spilled the news on Twitter) and that firm has agreed to make a “substantial donation” to the same charity and pay Rowling’s legal fees.

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