October 23, 2013
A filing from the plaintiff states and consumer class made public this week puts the total damages in their lawsuit against Apple over fixing e-book prices at more than $307...
September 25, 2013
It took Judge Denny Chin less than 40 minutes yesterday to hear oral arguments on the cross motions for summary judgment in the Authors Guild’s long-running lawsuit against...
September 18, 2013
In its final brief before oral arguments, the Authors Guild this week closed by imploring Judge Denny Chin to shoot down Google's book scanning program, and let Congress ask...
September 5, 2013
After eight years of legal wrangling in the Google Books case, Judge Chin now appears eager to move things along. In an order last week, Chin bluntly denied an Authors Guild...
August 19, 2013
The $166 million publishers have agreed to pay to settle e-book price fixing charges with the states and consumer class could soon begin flowing to consumers, and PW has learned...
July 25, 2013
According to a recent filing, publishers have paid a total of $166,158,426 to settle state and consumer e-book price fixing charges, including an additional $3,909,000 to settle...
July 11, 2013
In a major blow, Judge Denise Cote today ruled that Apple did indeed collude with five major publishers to fix e-book prices in 2010. The decision comes following the June 20 close...
July 3, 2013
In a major blow to the Authors Guild, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit has vacated Judge Denny Chin’s 2011 ruling granting the organization class action status in its...
June 20, 2013
In the final moments of Appleâ??s e-book price-fixing trial, federal Judge Denise Cote uttered the words Apple attorneys have surely longed to hear, saying the issues over the...
June 12, 2013
On day five of Apple’s e-book price fixing trial, HarperCollins’ CEO Brian Murray couldn’t recall very much from those heady days of early 2010, when Apple was...
May 28, 2013
At what was supposed to be a routine final conference last Thursday, May 23, before the June 3 start of the government’s trial of Apple over e-book price-fixing charges, the...
May 25, 2013
A final scheduled conference before the long-awaited June 3 e-book price-fixing trial took place in Manhattan yesterday, and while most of the agenda was set to focus on various...
May 21, 2013
Amazon attorneys last week filed a letter with the court asking that it be allowed to redact sensitive business information about its Kindle e-book program gathered as evidence for...
April 26, 2013
In an opinion issued this week, Judge Denise Cote shot down Penguin’s request for a jury trial to hear the remaining state and the consumer class action cases against them....
April 17, 2013
In his keynote at the fifth Digital Minds Conference, bestselling author and Twitter superstar Neil Gaiman kicked off the London Book Fair by likening the digital transition to...
March 9, 2013
In a filing this week with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the Association of American Publishers came out against a bid by Amazon to buy the .book...
February 12, 2013
In a proposed settlement disclosed on February 8, Macmillan has agreed to pay up to $20 million to settle price-fixing suits filed by a group of states' attorneys general, and a...
