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<title>Barnes &amp; Noble complains to DOJ about e-book fixing case</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/08/claims.agency.pricing.a.boon.to.industry/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/ipad2-books2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Bookseller Barnes &amp; Noble has sent a complaint to the US Department of Justice regarding a proposed settlement in the latter's case against e-book price fixing, says paidContent.  The DOJ has proposed a settlement with publishers HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon &amp; Schuster, who were all accused of colluding to keep e-book prices artificially high by moving to an agency model.  In its complaint, ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>DOJ preps antitrust lawsuit versus Apple, e-book publishers</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/07/doj.warns.apple.must.change.ibookstore.rules/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/ipad2-tvad7.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice is readying an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and publishers unless they change their pricing strategy for e-books, leaks revealed Wednesday night.  Agency officials reportedly slipped to the Wall Street Journal that both the iPad designer as well as Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon &amp; Schuster would face legal action for possibly having colluded ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Random House ups library e-book rates to keep uncapped loans</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/amazonkindle4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Random House helped set a possible precedent for e-books in libraries late last week after it agreed to a deal on lending.  While it would raise the price for an e-book by an unspecified amount, the term would guarantee that libarires could have any title they want and provide an unlimited number of loans.  The deal was portrayed to Publishers Weekly and others as giving authors fair compensation ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rush of illustrated titles accompanies iBooks 1.2 update</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/15/area.generally.unexploited.in.tablets/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1012/ipad-ibookspread.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Over 100 illustrated books have been added to the iBookstore in tandem with the release of iBooks 1.2, says the New York Times.  These are spread across several different genres, including cooking, photography and children's books.  Some notable titles include Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home, a photo collection by Ansel Adams and the Olivia series of picture books....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Amazon cuts Apple-like deals with Harper, Simon &amp; Schuster</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1003/amazonkindle-ipad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Amazon today bowed to pressure ahead of the iPad launch by striking new Kindle book deals with HarperCollins and Simon &amp; Schuster.  Similar to the terms for Macmillan, the change will let both publishers use an agency model that gives them control over prices.  Some bestseller e-books will now cost between $13 to $15; others will still cost the usual $10, but others should be priced below Amazon's...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Publishers delay e-book releases to combat cut-rate pricing</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/barnesandnoblenook.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Several major publishers have begun delaying e-book releases to combat the competitive price slashing of best sellers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Simon &amp; Schuster is putting a four month hold on 35 titles scheduled for release next year, while Lagerdere SCA's Hachette Book Group is planning to take similar actions....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Simon and Schuster intros video book format</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/vook.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Simon &amp; Schuster hoped to spur on the creation of a new book format on Thursday by launching vooks, or video books.  The approach builds videos directly into a text and is meant to enhance a work while minimizing the flow of a book as much as possible.  An instructional book can show a task in action, for example, while a novel can use clips to establish the setting or to show a video a character ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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