The links below are to various articles related to the Man Booker Prize, including this year’s winner.
For more visit:
– https://lithub.com/anna-burns-wins-the-2018-man-booker-prize/
– https://bookmarks.reviews/every-man-booker-prize-winner-of-the-21st-century/
– https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/books/how-to-judge-booker-prize-val-mcdermid.html
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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The link below is a follow-up to earlier posts concerning the book ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ by Greg Mortenson. In short, the judge has dismissed the suit, stating that the claims of falsehood against Mortenson were ‘flimsy and speculative.’
For more, visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/greg-mortenson-lawsuit-rejected_n_1465255.html
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