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Tor publisher announces all ebooks will be DRM free by July - enabling books to be transferred between devices

Apr 25 2012: Tom Doherty Associates - comprising the Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen imprints - has announced that their entire list of ebooks will be available DRM-free "by early July." In a separate, following notice, Tor UK said that it will do the same. Digital...

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'Three Cups of Tea' author, Greg Mortenson, and publisher seek dismissal of class action suit

Apr 20 2012: At a federal court hearing this week, author Greg Mortenson and his publisher sought dismissal of a lawsuit that "aims to obtain class-action relief for book-buyers allegedly defrauded by purported fabrications" in Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools.

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Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against price-fixing allegations

Apr 19 2012: Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations of colluding with publishers to fix e-book prices, Apple lawyer Daniel Floyd told U.S. District Judge Denise Cote yesterday. Reuters reported that publishers Macmillan and Penguin "took a ...

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Pulitzer Prizes announced. Prize for fiction not awarded as judges could not reach a majority

Apr 17 2012: The Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded including a first win for online news network, The Huffington Post.

Other winners include:

Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How The World Became Modern (Norton)

History: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of ...

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Apple calls charges of collusion "simply not true"

Apr 13 2012: A day after the Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five publishers over the agency model for e-books, Apple called the charges of collusion "simply not true."

Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said, "The launch of the ...

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"The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling to published late September 2012

Apr 12 2012: Little, Brown UK has announced the title and publication date of JK Rowling's first novel for adults. The Casual Vacancy, described as a "blackly comic" novel centered around a small town in which everyone is at war with each other that's exacerbated by the unexpected ...

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Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S settle price-fixing allegations.

Apr 11 2012: Three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster—have agreed to a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. Publishers Weekly reported today on the broad strokes of the deal, and ...

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Will 2013 be the year of the glowing Kindle?

Apr 10 2012: Back in 2010 Amazon quietly booked a Swedish company that is said to be the world leaders in "light-guide" technology. It is this technology that Techcrunch predicts will be behind a new generation of glowing Kindles next year.

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