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A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Apple’s bid to disqualify an antitrust compliance monitor who was appointed after the company was found liable for conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices.While saying some allegations against the monitor, Michael Bromwich, “give pause,” the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said a Read More …
Oyster has made its name as the “Netflix for ebooks,” but now it’s about to pick up a more traditional business model: ebook sales. Oyster is launching an ebook store today that’ll live inside of its existing app. You won’t have to subscribe to Oyster to buy books from it, but subscribers may still want Read More …
Ever since the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month on Apple’s evolving plans to launch a multichannel subscription streaming video service, much has been made, largely by those already inclined to be suspicious of Comcast’s motives, of the reported absence of Comcast-owned NBC from the talks Apple is said to be holding with the other Read More …
Book publishers have been crowing this week over having wrested control over e-book prices from Amazon. After a brief showdown with Macmillan Publishing, in which Amazon pulled all Macmillan hardcover and paperback titles from its physical-book store, the Kindle maker blinked and agreed to the publisher’s demand to raise the price of its e-books in Read More …
On Thursday, Google announced during the Frankfurt Book Fair that its long-planned e-commerce platform for digital books will launch by June 2010. Christened Google Editions, represents a major departure from most current e-book offerings in that it won’t be confined to any particular reading device or desktop viewing application. Instead, Google will cache users’ purchases Read More …