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

24 August 2013 by particularkev

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/

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

19 August 2013 by particularkev

Article: Ebook Refunds

19 August 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article that reports on the issue of refunds as part of a deal with book publishers over the ebook pricing lawsuit deal in the USA.

For more visit:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/58729-more-than-23-million-consumer-accounts-qualify-for-e-book-refunds.html

Article: Catch-Up News on the Apple Ebook Lawsuit

15 August 2013 by particularkev

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.

For more visit:
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

3 August 2013 by particularkev

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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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Article: Apple Finally Being Held to Account

3 August 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article reporting on the USA DOJ’s proposed settlement for Apple in the ebook price fixing lawsuit. My view? Finally, Apple is having to put things right across the board.

For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/02/doj-calls-for-apple-to-let-rival-apps-link-to-their-ebookstores/

Apple could pay nearly $500 million in ebook case

26 July 2013 by particularkev

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Apple (s AAPL) could get smacked with a $500 million bill from the states and class action lawyers in the ebook pricing suit, based on the amounts that the settling publishers have already paid out.

Earlier this month, federal judge Denise Cote found Apple guilty of colluding with five publishers to fix ebook prices at the launch of the iBookstore. The five publishers named in the case — Hachette, Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster — have already settled and paid damages to the states and in the class action suit. In a document that the court made public Tuesday, the Texas attorney general provided Judge Cote with a chart showing the amounts that the states have agreed to pay. The red markup is by me: