Apple's best defense in e-books antitrust case

What's Apple's best defense in e-books antitrust case?
Washington Post
April 17 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.'s best defense against accusations it conspired to fix e-bookprices may turn on its absence from meetings in Manhattan restaurants where publishing executives allegedly worked out the scheme.

U.S. Sues Apple For eBook Pricing as Three Firms Settle
Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s best defense against accusations it conspired to fix e-bookprices may turn on its absence from meetings in Manhattan restaurants where publishing executives allegedly worked out the scheme. The maker of the iPad will need to show ...

Bloomberg

Book world expresses disappointment, outrage over Pulitzer snub
Christian Science Monitor
By Molly Driscoll / April 17, 2012 The three books chosen the fiction jury as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction were 'Swamplandia!' by Karen Russell, 'Train Dreams' by Denis Johnson and 'The Pale King' by David Foster Wallace.

Christian Science Monitor

'Fifty Shades of Grey' Author: Hit Books Were 'My Midlife Crisis'
ABC News
Author EL James said she hopes it's about love. "It's a contemporary, romantic fiction, with quite a lot of sex in it," she told "20/20" co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas in her first primetime television interview. "I think it's the love story.

ABC News

'Fifty Shades of Grey' author: 'Midlife crisis' led to steamy novel
msnbc.com
By Jillian Eugenios British writer EL James, author of the erotic romance trilogy beginning with the bestselling "Fifty Shades of Grey," can't believe the impact of her work, or the influence herbooks have had on the fantasies of women around the ...

Indie book publishers call Amazon, not Apple, a 'predator'
CNET
... gorilla that pounds rival e-book sellers into jelly. The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit last week accusing Apple and the country's five major book publishers of colluding to raise prices that consumers pay for electronic books (e-books).

Pippa Middleton's book coming out in October
USA TODAY
Luckily, Pippa, 28, is unlikely to wield anything more lethal than a glue gun in the preparation of her book of tips on party etiquette, for which she received a reported $600000 last year. Interest in the book is as stratospheric as interest in Pippa: ...

USA TODAY

Why Apple's E-Book Pricing Model Might Not Be Unfair
BusinessWeek (blog)
The US antitrust lawsuit against Apple (AAPL) and five major book publishers alleges that they conspired to fix prices for e-books ahead of the 2010 launch of the iPad and iBookstore, forcing Amazon to raise e-book prices for its Kindle.

'Fifty Shades of Grey' by EL James is selling books (and more)
Los Angeles Times
'Fifty Shades of Grey' by EL James and sequels are an ebook and paperback phenomenon that is also causing a sales spike in sex shops. How did it all happen? "Fifty Shades of Grey" authorEL James. (Vintage / April 16, 2012) By Rebecca Keegan and Nicole ...

Why Apple's eBook Pricing Defense Is Wrong
PCWorld
As an author, and a consumer of ebooks, I take exception to Apple's claim. Prior to Apple jumping into the game Amazon did, in fact, have a virtual monopoly of the ebook market. The Amazon Kindle is a dominant device among ereaders, and its popularity ...

Sen. Tom Coburn's New Book 'The Debt Bomb' Warns of Economic Crisis
ABC News (blog)
By JON KARL and SUNLEN MILLER The leading Republican budget hawk in the Senate, Senator Tom Coburn, R-OK., is coming out Tuesday with a new book that provides a harsh critique of Congress and a dire warning for the future economic situation of the ...

ABC News (blog)

Price-fixing settlement could mean cheaper e-books
msnbc.com
Big anti-trust lawsuits don't always produce results for the average consumer, but this latest one initiated by the Justice Department -- which alleges that publishers and e-book retailers have been colluding to keep the price of e-books high -- may...

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Apple braces to make its e-book defence
gulfnews.com
Antitrust official flays Apple's deal with publishers San Francisco Apple Inc.'s best defence against accusations it conspired to fix e-book prices may turn on its absence from meetings in Manhattan restaurants where publishing executives allegedly ...

eBooks Infographic: 2012 Credit Card Bills and Bank Statements Riddled with ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Americans are finding their credit card bills and bank statements riddled with a mounting tab of new charges for digital books after sales of eReaders and tablets exploded at the end of last year, as illustrated in CreditDonkey.com new research ...

Author of book on Ozzie Guillen doesn't expect manager's personality to change
MiamiHerald.com
The writer of a book on Ozzie Guillen was surprised how quickly he caused a flap but doesn't foresee a personality change. Ozzie Guillen holds a press conference to address his Fidel Castro comments on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at Marlins Park.

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Book Excerpt: Ricki Lake's 'Never Say Never'
ABC News
Ricki Lake has lived her life as an open book since making her star turn in the 1988 hit movie "Hairspray." The TV host and actress has been honest about her weight struggles (she once weighed 260 pounds before dropping nearly half her body weight) and ...

ABC News

US author Eggers will not accept Gunter Grass prize in person
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
(JTA) -- American author Dave Eggers said he will not travel to Germany to accept a literary prize from the Gunter Grass Foundation. Eggers said in a statement that the organizers should have postponed the award ceremony following the controversy over ...

Hiscox Authors Series for Entrepreneurs Offers Resources for Startups and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
New program features Authors of The Accidental Entrepreneur: The 50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Business and Leap! 101 Ways to Grow Your Business NEW YORK, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hiscox, the first insurer ...

Reading Is Fundamental Launches "Book People Unite," a National Campaign ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The campaign, anchored by a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) with beloved bookcharacters and a star-studded soundtrack, aims to spark a movement to put books in the hands of children who need them most. The PSA is a collaboration among RIF, ...

New Book "Optimize" by Lee Odden Provides a Framework for Integrated Content ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Internationally known consultant, blogger and speaker Lee Odden has launched a new book, "Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, and Content Marketing". Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 17, 2012 Consumers use ...

Author calls '50 Shades' 'romantic'
UPI.com
NEW YORK, April 17 (UPI) -- British author EL James says she thinks of her popular erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" as a "love story" with "quite a lot of sex in it." James talked about the surprise hit, which started out as an e-book, ...

Penn State sex abuse scandal tackled in new book
CBS News
But warning signs were ignored for years, according to a new book called "Game Over: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Culture of Silence" by Bill Moushey and Bob Dvorchak. Federal authorities subpoena Penn State Penn State: Sandusky case costing ...

Earmarking down, but Congress still sneaks projects
CBS News
The new "Pig Book" -- which has tracked Washington pork since 1991 -- says the amount of tax dollars destined for earmarks in 2012 is way down: $3.3 billion. The high was $29 billion in 2006. Tom Schatz's watchdog group, Citizens Against Government ...

CBS News

Pulitzer Fiction Snub Has Book Publishers Fuming
New York Times (blog)
By JULIE BOSMAN Days after the Department of Justice made the blockbuster announcement that it was suing five of the biggest book publishers in the business, the Pulitzer Prize board dropped its own bombshell on Monday: for the first time in 35 years, ...

Holocaust center in Romania protests poetry book
Fox News
BUCHAREST, Romania – A Holocaust research center in Romania says public funds were used to finance a children's poetry book that features on its cover Romania's World War II fascist leader. The National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in ...

No Pulitzer winner for fiction, Pippa Middleton book
USA TODAY
Yesterday's Pulitzer Prize announcement was one for the books: It's the first time since 1977 that the Pulitzer board "could not determine a winner," USA TODAY's Deirdre Donahue reports. The Pale King by the late David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson's ...

What the DOJ e-book lawsuit means for readers now
paidContent.org
Under those new agreements, for the next two years, retailers may set, change or lower e-bookprices and may offer discounts and other promotions “to encourage consumers to purchase one or more e-books.” After two years, the settling publishers may ...

Hole's Eric Erlandson Talks 'Letters to Kurt' Book, Courtney Love
Billboard
Eric Erlandson's new book, "Letters to Kurt" (as in Cobain), has not only returned the former Hole guitarist to the spotlight but will likely bring him back to public music-making as well. "I really am inspired to do a soundtrack to the book," ...

J.K. Rowling Announces New Harry Potter Book! | PerezHilton.com
By Perez Hilton
Pottermania is about to hit a NEW level! Author of the insanely successful Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling, recently took to her personal website, breaking the news to fans that she's working on... ... No word on when the book might be completed or really any details about it yet, but as far as another HP literary journey goes? Rowling said: "I have always refused to say 'never' to this question, because I think it would be foolish to rule out something I might want to do in a few years' time.
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FoxTrot author creates "Pad Packs" with iBooks Author | TUAW - The ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
FoxTrot creator Bill Amend packaged his beloved comic strip for the iPad using Apple's free iBooks Author publishing tool. Amend released these iPad mini-books recently and calls them the "FoxTrot Pad Pack". Each Pad Pack is US$1.99 and ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Julie Gerstenblatt: How to Get a Book Deal: Tiger Mom, Diet Mom ...
By Julie Gerstenblatt
In this book, she recounts in great detail the ways in which she uses traditional Chinese parenting methods to drive her daughters towards perfection in the arts. This is old news, of course. But now there's Dara-Lynn Weiss, aka the Diet Mom.
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A book signing in Montréal is happening | La Tartine Gourmande
By Béa
Oh le rythme de la vie these days…my reality… These days, it could be summarized in just a few words. I am busy. So busy that, in fact, I am not able to find the time to write. I miss it terribly. I so much want to be able to chat and share recipes, ...
La Tartine Gourmande

Pseudonymous Bosch Lands Deal with Dial Books for Young ...
By Maryann Yin
Secret Series author Pseudonymous Bosch (a.k.a. Raphael Simon) has inked a deal for a new middle grade trilogy with Penguin's Dial Books for Young Readers. The not-yet-titled first book is slated for release in 2013. Literary agent Sarah ...
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Google Play Books adds annotation improvements | iLounge News
By Jesse Hollington
Google Play Books adds annotation improvements. Author's pic ... Google Play Books 1.3 adds the ability to bookmark pages by tapping the top right corner, highlight text with colour and add private notes to selected text; highlights and notes also sync with Google Play web reader and Google Play Books on other iOS devices. ... A choice of either grid or list view is also now available on the iPhone and iPod touch and a +1 button allows users to share book titles via Google Plus.
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone,...

Really Good Books That Happen to Be Free For the Kindle: Part One ...
By Nicole Cliffe
Why couldn't anyone be both nice to Beauty AND not die all the time? Burn your draw reins. A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton-Porter – Oh, this book is actually the greatest. The greatest. And you know who would have loved getting books ...
The Hairpin

Educational Development Corporation vs ... - Melville House Books
By Kelly Burdick
The New York Times' David Streitfeld has a profile of Tulsa-based publisher Educational Development Corporation, which in February pulled its 1800 children's books off of Amazon. (A move discussed in a previous MobyLives report.) Randall ...
Melville House Books

This week in L.A.: Times Book Prizes, festival highlight active week ...
By Jon Thurber
A preview of the week's upcoming literary events in and around L.A.. ... This is a big week forauthors, books and book lovers in Southern California as the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are awarded in advance of the Festival of Books, now in its second year on the USC campus. This is the 32nd presentation of the ... Wallace Stegner was given the Robert Kirsch Award, which recognizes an outstanding body of work by an author from the West or featuring the West. Kirsch was a ...
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Why Do Old Books Smell?
By EDW Lynch
Why Do Old Books Smell? By EDW Lynch on April 16, 2012. Richard of online bookseller AbeBooks tells us why old books have that peculiar smell. via Explore · Share · Email · Share on Tumblr. Filed Under: Books. Written by EDW Lynch ...
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Pholium - Professional photo e-books right on your iPad at Cool ...
By Jeana
Create your own professional-quality photo ebooks and share them with family and friends with the Pholium ebook app for iPad. ... Create photo e-books with Pholium I've come to a conclusion... The e-book and photo quality are stellar.
Cool Mom Tech

News from NYC @ Book Fair | Anarchist news dot org
By worker
A group of people who had attended an anarchist book fair in Manhattan later marched to a nearby Starbucks on Saturday night and began swinging at the windows with metal pipes, as frightened customers hid under tables, the police said.
Anarchist news dot org

Flavorwire » Literary Classics With Slang Makeovers
Today marks the release of On the Bro'd, a parody of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel in which the entire book is translated into bro-speak. In case you're not quite ...
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Daring to Cut Off Amazon - Yahoo! Finance
[Related: What Apple's Ebook Fiasco Means for Amazon and the Book Business] ... Selling e-books so cheaply, they feared, would solidify Amazon's robust grip on the business .... And colleagues in the business have been congratulating the publisher, or at least ... Amazon's E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers ...
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JK Rowling Is Writing a Potter Encyclopedia; The Pulitzer Blame Game
The Atlantic Wire
[Jacket Copy] Nobody was more surprised by the decision not to award a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction than NPR Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan, one of three jurors for the books prize, along with author Michael Cunningham and Susan Larson, ...

The Atlantic Wire

FastPencil PREMIERE Launches "The War Against the Luftwaffe 1943-1944, The ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CAMPBELL, Calif., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today FastPencil announced the launch of "The War Against the Luftwaffe 1943-1944, The Untold Story" by military historian, researcher and author L. Douglas Keeney. The book, the first in the ...

Former Ohio State men's basketball player Mark Titus talks new book, Final ...
OSU - The Lantern
By Pat Brennan Former OSU men's basketball player and creator of club trillion.com, Mark Titus, smiles during an interview with The Lantern following his April 16 book signing at the South Campus Gateway Barnes and Noble.

Book Review: The Dawn of a New Vision for Mother Zambia
UKZAMBIANS
The author calls on all citizens to take the mantle with full confidence to develop Zambia, and not rely on outside forces, to a point of being anti-international agencies. He calls for a radical shift in economic policy, both fiscal and monetary, ...

Publishing Startups Provide New Avenues for Authors, Readers
BetaKit
“We are filling a void between readers and writers. There are so many layers of people standing in between readers and the writers – booksellers, publishers etc.,” Lau said in an interview. “The Internet is great at connecting people and we are ...

BetaKit

Children and Parents in the Age of Medication
Metapsychology
We've Got Issues begins accordingly with the story of the author's personal "odyssey" out of this enchantment -- a toy version of Cartesian doubt. The main purpose of the book, however, is to convince others by bringing into proper light at least some ...

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