Publishing NewsAmazon / antitrust / ATT / DirecTV / Ebooks / Facebook / games / Paypal / Women of the YearComments Off on Thursday News: ebooks v. games, DOJ sues DirecTV, Facebook’s growth, and Bono as ‘woman of the year’
Paypal’s New eBook Report: Consumers Are More Willing to Pay for eBooks Than Video Games – Nate Hoffelder’s take on a new report from Paypal that looks at international ebook and game buying patterns. Beyond the not-really-news that Amazon still leads in the sale of ebooks (surprise!), it seems that games ... more >
Publishing Newsantitrust / Apple / Beverly Jenkins / Conspiracy / copyright infringement / ebook pricing / intellectual property rights / plagiarism / writer's conferences13 Comments
Don’t Do This Ever (an advice column for writers): Plagiarism Warning edition – Laura Harner has apparently “written” 75 books in the past five years. I quoted “written” because some of them, at least, appear to be versions of m/f books by Becky McGraw and Opal Carew (and perhaps others?) that change the ... more >
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Antitrust experts slam Comcast merger plan, warn of threats to Netflix and Amazon Prime – As the FCC considers whether to green light the pending merger between Time Warner and Comcast, more than 36 antitrust experts from the fields of economics and law wrote a long objection to the merger, ... more >
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Authors United’s Next Move: DOJ – Apparently this story originally appears in the Financial Times, but since the site has a paywall, I’m not going to link to it. So not many details beyond the fact that Authors United is now urging the Department of Justice ti investigate Amazon. Does ... more >
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Judge Says Price-Fixing Suit Filed by Retailers Can Proceed – Judge Cote has ruled that an antitrust suit brought by independent bookseller DNAML against Apple et al can move forward, likely in tandem with Lavoho, LLC and Abbey House Media (formerly Diesel and Books on Board). Question: Will these publishers ... more >
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Comic book icon Archie to ‘die heroically’ – I have to admit that this is pretty clever, although I’m guessing it’s going to make some readers feel manipulated. Although the Archie comics that continue to feature Archie, Veronica, and Betty as teenagers continue to keep all its main characters alive, ... more >