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7 gifts for history and geography fans
From a massive atlas to a comprehensive history of the White House, here are 7 of the best history and geography gift books of the season.
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Top 10 highest paid authors of 2011
Forbes has just released their 2011 list of the world's highest paid authors (based on earnings from May 2010 to April 2011), and some of them may surprise you. We'll tell you how much each author made, why you should know their names, and how they beat the recession's effect on the fiction industry.
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Chapter & Verse
DOJ reaches settlement with Penguin over e-book price fixingIf the settlement is approved, Macmillan and Apple will be the lone defendants in the government’s suit.
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Amazon wins an e-book fight in EuropeEuropean Union regulators ended an antitrust probe into e-book prices after Apple and other publishers offered to abandon the possibility of pricing agreements that would have hindered Amazon selling e-books more cheaply than their rivals.
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Apple agreement with the European Union would allow lower Amazon e-book pricesThe deal – which would end an antitrust investigation targeted at Apple's e-book pricing in Europe and allow Amazon to sell e-books more cheaply – is good news for Amazon but bad news for publishers.
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'The Casual Vacancy' e-book suffers technical problemsSome readers were upset by the font size of early releases of the e-book version of 'The Casual Vacancy,' in addition to concerns about its price.
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So low, so fast: E-book prices drop following settlementJust four days after a federal judge approved a settlement in the e-books price fixing case, HarperCollins has already started discounts.
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Judge approves a settlement between DOJ and publishers in landmark opinionWill the court's decision trigger an e-book price war?
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Apple blasts the DOJ's proposed e-book price settlementApple called the DOJ's proposed settlement to the e-book price fixing case 'fundamentally unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented.'
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DOJ defends its Apple lawsuitAfter public complaints by Sen. Charles Schumer and others, the DOJ says it's not wavering in its lawsuit against Apple and five major US publishers.
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Schumer challenges DOJ on e-book lawsuitSen. Charles Schumer wrote in an op-ed that the Department of Justice's lawsuit could 'wipe out the publishing industry as we know it.'
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E-book battle: Libraries, publishers square off on pricing
E-book publishers are worried about profits shrinking if libraries go digital, and they're hiking e-book prices. Stretched thin by lean budgets, libraries are slow to embrace digital content. Can the two sides reach a solution?
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Barnes and Noble stock soars on Microsoft team-up
Barnes and Noble stock went zooming following an infusion of money from Microsoft to create a subsidiary for Barnes & Noble's e-book and college textbook businesses.
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Chapter & Verse
Apple will fight the DOJApple wants the anti-trust case filed against it by the DOJ to be decided 'on the merits.'
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Horizons
What the e-book scandal means for AppleApple is under fire from the DOJ. So how will the next few months shake out for the tech giant?
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Horizons
Apple, five major publishers accused of e-book collusion by DOJOn Wednesday, the Department of Justice filed a complaint in US District Court against Apple and a group of publishers. Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have agreed to settle. The rest will probably fight on.
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Inside US lawsuit: How Apple, publishers allegedly brought Amazon to heel
US antitrust lawyers filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. and two publishers, alleging they conspired to inflate the price of e-books, at an estimated cost to readers of $100 million.
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E-books price-fixing suit hits Apple. Will readers get compensated?
E-books price fixing by Apple and several large book publishers forced consumers to pay an extra $2 to $3 extra per e-book, law-enforcement officials say. But the long-term impact on e-book prices is not clear.
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Right pricing e-books: Is the government actually discouraging competition?Authors Guild President Scott Turow charges in an open letter about e-book pricing: “Our government may be on the verge of killing real competition in order to save the appearance of competition.”
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Lower e-book prices ahead as government threatens Apple, publishers?The Justice Department has told Apple and five major publishers that it's planning to sue them for fixing e-book prices.
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The Circle Bastiat
E-books get pricey. Will customers go paperback?As e-book sales increase, their prices have inched upward. But will customers pay $10 to $15 for a digital book?
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7 gifts for history and geography fans
From a massive atlas to a comprehensive history of the White House, here are 7 of the best history and geography gift books of the season.
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Chapter & Verse
Is Amazon's Kindle Lending Library a breach of contract?Some writers are up in arms that Amazon's Kindle Lending Library is offering their books for free.
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Top 10 highest paid authors of 2011
Forbes has just released their 2011 list of the world's highest paid authors (based on earnings from May 2010 to April 2011), and some of them may surprise you. We'll tell you how much each author made, why you should know their names, and how they beat the recession's effect on the fiction industry.
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Chapter & Verse
Apple, leading US publishers, charged with collusionTwo plaintiffs in an anti-trust lawsuit claim that Apple and five publishers colluded to drive up Amazon's low e-book prices, raising profits for publishers and making Apple's iPad more competitive against Amazon's Kindle.
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Google Books scores a deal in FranceIt wasn't easy getting there, but Google Books has signed a deal with a major French publisher.
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Chapter & Verse
'What should I read?' A new site called Bookish hopes to tell youPublisher-supported Bookish hopes to become the Rotten Tomatoes of the book world.
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