Morning Business Memo: Amazon is the big winner in the government’s decision to go after Apple and major publishers over alleged ebook price fixing. Amazon might decide to slash the price of many bestsellers from $14.99 to $9.99. The Justice Department and 15 states sued... Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
If Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillian, Penguin and Simon & Schuster thought they only had to contend with a federal ebook lawsuit in the US, they'd better think again. Australia's Competition and Consumer commission is inviting local businesses to raise formal concerns as it weighs... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling's new novel for adults is to be titled The Casual Vacancy and will be published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adam Mansbach's picture book 'Go the F--- To Sleep' is now available in a kid-friendly version called 'Seriously, Go To Sleep.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple and publishers Penguin and Macmillan have decided to fight US government charges that they conspired to fix the prices of ebooks, even as three other publishers agreed to a settlement aimed at lowering prices for consumers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK c.e.o. Tim Hely Hutchinson has assured authors that the publisher is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne Publishing will be launching a foreign-language publishing operation in Germany this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three of the five book publishers sued Wednesday by the Department of Justice quickly agree to scrap their deal with Apple and claim no wrong-doing. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 'American Spy,' Steinhauer finishes what he started in 'The Tourist' and 'The Nearest Exit.' It's a thrilling, irresistible masterwork of love, guilt and revenge.On two separate occasions over the last nine years, Olen Steinhauer has brought a thriller series to a close. The first was the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin chief executive John Makinson has said the Department of Justice's document alleging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize winner A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A Knopf) is among the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers over alleged ebook price fixing means that the publishers have to... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder has acquired a biography of T-Rex rocker Marc Bolan, written by Freddie Mercury biographer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five of the companies under investigation in Europe over ebook pricing have made representations... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sceptre has signed three new titles, striking deals for a non-fiction title about avoiding errors... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomberg Businessweek is testing a question: How well can magazine content work on the iPhone? Magazine companies have jumped feet first into the iPad marketplace, attracted to the idea that a lean-back medium like magazines would work well in a lea ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department and attorney generals from 16 states sued Apple Inc. and five major book publishers, alleging they colluded to raise the price of electronic books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Foreign language modern classics publisher Pushkin Press has been bought by Adam Freudenheim,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple's Steve Jobs played a key role in a price-fixing plan with five ebook publishers, federal and state officials say in antitrust lawsuits.WASHINGTON — Former Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs was a key player in a conspiracy with five major book publishers to drive up the price of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist William Boyd is to write the next James Bond book, with 007 set to return to a 1960s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]