Apple has avoided an $800 million bill from a clutch of US states and other complainants by reaching an out of court settlement in a controversial price-fixing case. The settlement, the terms of which are yet to be revealed, still has to be ratified by the court and both sides involved in the deal have 30 days to submit a filing to US District Judge in Manhattan Denise Cote for it to be approved. Apple was first accused in April 2012 by the US Department of Justice, alongside five publishers, of colluding to illegally inflate the price of eBooks, which… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'
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Alex Bowler's "fine and curious mind", and the mix of skills he brought from his previous roles at both Jonathan Cape and Granta, together won him the coveted Faber publisher post, chief executive Stephen Page has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are urging the UK government to support measures that would allow VAT to be removed on ebooks, audiobooks and online newspaper and magazine subscriptions in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended May 20, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The streaming company will recompense songwriters not paid enough royalties, but one unhappy music publisher claims ruling is ‘a free pass on wilful infringement’Spotify will pay out $112m (£83.5m) in a settlement agreement, following two lawsuits that claimed songwriters hadn’t been paid enough... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Suddenly, all bets are on regarding the future of American sports gambling. A surge in betting caused by the Supreme Court’s lifting of a federal ban on sports wagering is expected to trigger new gaming opportunities and burnish existing sports books in Las Vegas casinos — but also spawn a battle... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The FT today published a fascinating interview with Thomas Middelhoff, the former CEO of Bertelsmann, the German media giant. Middelhoff became a star during the dot-com boom—his $50 million investment in AOL became a $7 billion exit five years later—and then his star fell. Middelhoff ended up... Continue reading at Slate
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Despite the allegations of harassment against Junot Díaz, most booksellers have opted to continuing selling his books, while acknowledging they are troubled by the growing number of authors who have been accused of sexual misconduct. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended April 29, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Apple paid BuzzFeed to release a show first on Apple News, and the publisher was also able to make money through an ad-revenue split. The post Why BuzzFeed News premiered a show on Apple News before Facebook, YouTube, Twitter appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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Apple is working on an augmented reality headset. This we’ve “known” from a handful of reports over the past few months, perhaps most notably from Bloomberg, which revealed that the company was readying the technology for a 2019 debut. These reports always come with some degree of uncertainty,... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended April 22, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing giant Axel Springer has lost a long-running case seeking to limit the use of Adblock Plus. Continue reading at BBC World
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The bestselling iBooks in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended April 15, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Rebel Wilson has returned to court in Melbourne to fight an appeal by magazine publisher Bauer Media, which was last year found to have defamed the Hollywood star. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor’s barrister says Bauer had a campaign to ‘take down’ Wilson and attempted to ‘neutralise’ her responses Rebel Wilson deserved the right to reply before a magazine publisher accused her of being a serial liar – and an apology afterwards – a Melbourne court has been told.The Australian actor... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple said 12 of its employees were arrested last year for leaking corporate information to the outside world, according to an internal company memo that itself was leaked to Bloomberg reporters. Cupertino-based Apple is notoriously secretive, but the lengthy memo, posted recently to its... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2018-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended April 8, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended April 1, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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It’s not often a single title tops both the print and ebook charts in the same week, let alone pulls off that feat multiple times, but Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine's in the number one ebook chart slot has now reached seven consecutive weeks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We know it would be a big deal. But only Apple knows what sort of future it envisions for its 34-year-old computing platform. Apple uses its own purpose-designed CPUs for its iPhones and iPads, built around the ARM architecture. An article reported by Ian King and Mark Gurman, published by... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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