| Comixology is the largest digital comic reseller in the world. They account for the vast majority of sales for DC, Marvel, Archie, GI JOE and many other top publishers. Not only do they sell the comics in their own app, but they have developed custom apps for these publishers as well. Amazon has announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire comiXology. The writing was on the wall for the last year that Amazon was in negotiations to purchase Comixology. This prompted Marvel to make sweeping changes to their Marvel AR and Marvel Unlimited subscription program and lay the groundwork to sell their own comics. The purchase of Comixology will finally allow Amazon to make a series bid to control the entire digital comics market. The comics giant has had over 200 million downloads since its launch in 2007. Comixology recently expanded their European offerings—the digital vendor opened a French office last year—announcing a manga digital distribution agreement with VIZ Media Europe and its French subsidiary, Kazé. Amazon has always sold digital graphic novels in their Kindle store. One of the pitfalls of their strategy is the series are rather dated and series comic lovers often buy the single issues as soon as they are released. Amazon will now be selling single issues from over 70 publishers in their store in the near future. Amazon also expressed great interest in the self-publishing platform Comixology Submit and it is currently unknown if this program will play a part in Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Lending Library and Create Space. "ComiXology's mission is to spread the love of comics and graphic novels in all forms," said David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of comiXology. "There is no better home for comiXology than Amazon to see this vision through. Working together, we look to accelerate a new age for comic books and graphic novels." "Amazon and comiXology share a passion for reinventing reading in a digital world," said David Naggar, Amazon Vice President, Content Acquisition and Independent Publishing. "We’ve long admired the passion comiXology brings to changing the way we buy and read comics and graphic novels. We look forward to investing in the business, growing the team, and together, bringing comics and graphic novels to even more readers." Amazon controls digital books by a wide margin compared to the competition. With the acquisition of Comixology the company will now dominate the digital comic market too. Breaking: Amazon Acquires Comixology is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Breaking: Amazon Acquires Comixology
Weekly eHighlights: Teen edition
| Authors writing for the teen audience have really been knocking it out of the park with some amazing new titles! This week, we highlight some of the new and noteworthy YA titles your teen patrons will love. There are some great dramas this week in Liv, Forever by Amy Talkington, If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch, the California Diaries Series by Ann M. Martin and The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton. Or if you have teen readers who are still loving all things steampunk, check out The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross. Fantasy and sci-fi are also not to be missed with The Maze Runner author James Dashner's new novella Gunner Skale: An Eye of Minds Story, a fresh spin on what's going on in Oz with Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Page, and Earth Star by Janet Edwards. Happy Reading! 
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Fiction
Lucy Connors – The Lonesome Young The Rhodales and the Whitfields have been sworn enemies for close on a hundred years, with a whole slew of adulterous affairs, financial backstabbing, and blackmailing that’s escalated the rivalry to its current state of tense ceasefire. Victoria Whitfield and Mickey Rhodale are about to find out the most passionate romances are the forbidden ones. Romantic Times Most Anticipated YA Books of 2014
Kady Cross – The Girl with the Iron Touch When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. What’s left of their archenemy, The Machinist, hungers to be resurrected, and Emily must transplant his consciousness into one of his automatons or forfeit her friends’ lives. eBook newly available.
James Dashner – Gunner Skale: An Eye of Minds Story From James Dashner, the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, comes an original thirty-page e-short returning fans to the fast-paced, high-tech world from The Eye of Minds, the first book in the Mortality Doctrine series. Find out how Gunner Skale, the best gamer on the VirtNet, becomes a legend in this story available exclusively online. Not available in print format.
Janet Edwards – Earth Star The highly anticipated follow-up to Janet Edward’s sensational YA sci-fi debut, Earth Girl. 18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honors for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. An Amazon Best Book of the Month.
John Green – The Fault In Our Stars Just in case you missed this bestseller when Penguin books became available for schools, we thought we'd remind you. The movie is coming on June 6!
Jaleigh Johnson – The Mark of the Dragonfly Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a caravan in the Meteor Fields. The girl doesn’t remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she’s from the Dragonfly Territories and that she’s protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home. An Amazon Best Book of the Month. 100,000 print run.
Julie Kagawa – The Forever Song Allie will embrace her cold vampire side to hunt down and end Sarren, the psychopathic vampire who murdered Zeke. But the trail is bloody and long, and Sarren has left many surprises for Allie and her companions. Goodreads Can’t Wait Books of 2014 #42. 150,000 print run.
Sherrilyn Kenyon – Illusion: Chronicles of Nick, Book 5 Nick Gautier is tired of his destiny. He doesn’t want to be the son of a demon who’s fated to end the world. Nor does he want to see another demon or other preternatural creature who wants to kill or enslave him. He just wants to be normal and have normal problems like everyone else. But normality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Goodreads Can’t Wait Books of 2014 #45. 350,000 print run.
M. E. Kerr – Deliver Us from Evie, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Frankenlouse, Gentlehands, Hello I Lied, Is That You Miss Blue? Little, Little, Someone Like Summer M. E. Kerr has been described by The New York Times as "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction." She has won multiple awards for her novels, some of which are now newly available in eBook format.
Ann M. Martin – California Diaries Series Ann M. Martin's California Diary Series is newly available in eBook format. The series is a spinoff of The Baby-Sitters Club books. The premise is that students are required to keep a journal for a school project, and each book covers a part of a journal for that girl. The series covers more mature subject matter than The Baby-Sitters Club books, such as alcohol, eating disorders, cancer, and more.
Emily Murdoch – If You Find Me A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Booklist, SLJ, Kirkus Starred Reviews. 2013 book, but newly available.
Danielle Page – Dorothy Must Die "Dorothy. They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe. My name is Amy Gumm–and I’m the other girl from Kansas. I’ve been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. I’ve been trained to fight." An Amazon Best Book of the Month. 125,000 print run.
Amy Talkington – Liv, Forever When Liv Bloom lands an art scholarship at Wickham Hall, it’s her ticket out of the foster system. Liv isn’t sure what to make of the school’s weird traditions and rituals, but she couldn’t be happier. But Liv’s bliss is doomed. Weeks after arriving, she is viciously murdered and, in death, she discovers that she’s the latest victim of a dark conspiracy that has claimed many lives. Debut fiction with lots of buzz. 50,000 print run.
Leslye Walton – The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Ava, in all other ways a normal girl, is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. An Amazon Best Book of the Month.
Nonfiction
William H. Harrison – Spanish Memory Book: A New Approach to Vocabulary Building The Intermediate Spanish Memory Book makes use of a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful, sardonic, touching, and heroic to help both students and independent learners acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.
Mark C. Purcell – Mindfulness for Teen Anger Using proven effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Mindfulness for Teen Anger teaches teens the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of anger.
R. Kent Rasmussen – World War I for Kids Emphasizing connections among events as well as the war’s influence on later historical developments, it leads young readers to fully understand the most important aspects of the war, including how the war came about, how changing military technology caused the western front to bog down into a long stalemate, how the war fostered an era of rapid technological advances, and how the entry of the United States helped end the war. 100th Anniversary of World War I coming in July
Murray Shukyn, Dale E. Shuttleworth, Achim Krull – GED Test for Dummies, Quick Prep Edition This complete guide provides test-prep instruction and information on the question types that apply to the 2014 GED test, and provides a quick check-up to test one's preparedness.
Did you miss these weekly eHighlights? Don’t worry – they’re still available. Check them out now for even more great titles! eHighlights Mar 13, 2014 Metered Access eHighlights Mar 13, 2014 One Copy/One User
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New how-to animation – special guest star!
| We’ve just taken delivery of another video from the lovely guys at Saladhouse Animation. This one’s for the new Quick Start page, to help out all those beginners who have asked which cables go where, and what they do. UK readers over 30 or so might recognise the voice of our animated presenter. Massive thanks, as always, to Sam Alder and Scott Lockhart at Saladhouse, who we love working with; they’re some of our favourite people. But the biggest thanks of all has to go to my childhood hero (he’s also the childhood hero of all the actual grown-ups in the office) – without this guy’s influence when I was a kid, I wouldn’t have ended up loving science, and I wouldn’t have ended up working on Raspberry Pi. Here he is at the recording session with Sam (mouth) and Scott (tall): That’s the LEGENDARY Johnny Ball. Johnny donated his time and his voice talent to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and we couldn’t be more grateful: Johnny, please watch out for the postman next week, ‘cos we’re sending you a present to say thanks. |
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Booktrack Aids eBook Comprehension, Looks to Educational Application
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One of the concepts that launched early but (unfortunately) didn’t seem to take off with consumers was audio soundtracks that played while readers worked through the book. Not audio narration and not limited to music, these soundtracks were designed to move at the reader’s pace and fit the action of the story at that time. While the idea didn’t seem to get the attention that things like embedded content for tablet-based textbooks received, soundtrack reading is getting a new life through Booktrack. The company launched some time ago and has rolled out new features–like Booktrack Studio, which lets readers create these accompanying soundtracks from a library of some 20,000 different tracks–that have enticed more than 300,000 users to join, and led to the creation of almost four thousand reader-built ebook soundtracks since its recent launch. Now, Booktrack has secured $3M in funding to increase its capabilities and add new avenues to its focus, including a self-publishing angle and a classroom function. The latter focus, Booktrack for education, stands to become one of the more exciting innovations in classroom application for digital reading since the adoption of ebooks in K12 classroom. Multiple studies have shown that user engagement in both adults and students increases with the addition of music or other audio enhancements, leading to higher rates of reading comprehension and longer time spent engaging with a book.
Booktrack Aids eBook Comprehension, Looks to Educational Application is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Blackwell’s Learning Launches this June in the UK
| Blackwell’s is one of the premier bookstores in the UK and the company is launching a new digital learning service that has been built for students, academics and professionals to download and annotate eBooks on any device. Blackwell’s learning is launching this September and it will provide publishers with a secure additional sales channel, the ability to sell print and digital content in one place whilst gaining access to detailed consumer insight data. The service, which will integrate with university virtual learning environments and learning management systems, has been built in partnership with academics and students to ensure it meets the needs of key stakeholders from day one. Right now, as you can see Blackwell’s is trying very hard to build a system to attract publishers and schools to do business with them. "Blackwell Learning has been in development for over nine months. It is built by a dedicated British technology team," explains Matthew Cashmore, Blackwell's Digital Director. "In addition to benefiting from Blackwell's inherent understanding of the academic sector across 135 years, it has been actively created in association with a large and diverse group of academics and students." Cashmore adds that Blackwell Learning will deliver a consistent and enjoyable user experience across all devices online and offline, enabling students to buy and annotate texts which can be shared through a built-in social media interface. "Students will be able to bring their own technology to access the service free of charge," he adds. "This is just the first stage for Blackwell Learning and for the new digital development team on Silicon Roundabout". "We know from conversations already held that publishers, academics and students are all very excited about its potential and we have already begun looking at additional post-launch features and other new products for this and other market sectors." Blackwell’s Learning Launches this June in the UK is a post from: Good e-Reader |
EBSCO Gains 30,000 eBook Titles from Random House
| Random House and EBSCO have come to terms on a new digital book strategy for libraries. Starting today, over 30,000 titles will be available from some of the most notable Random House authors, including Dan Brown, Sheryl Sandberg, Dean Koontz, Gillian Flynn and more. Random House titles have been added to the nearly 600,000 eBooks and audiobooks that EBSCO eBooks already offers. The titles represent both frontlist and popular backlist titles from all Random House imprints and publishing groups, which publish fiction and nonfiction, both original and reprints, by some of the foremost and most popular writers of our times. The partnership will help librarians acquire high-demand titles in a cost-effective way since there are no markups or fees of any kind on EBSCO eBook titles. EBSCO makes it easy for librarians to build or grow e-book collections through featured collections. Random House titles will be included in EBSCO's Best-Sellers Collection, New Releases Collection and Youth Award Winners Collection. Many libraries that do business with EBSCO such as Brooklyn and Philadelphia currently do not have any of the new Random House titles. It is up to the librarians to order the books to make them available to the patrons. Hopefully many libraries all over the US will be putting in orders to stock their virtual shelves with a ton of great titles. EBSCO Gains 30,000 eBook Titles from Random House is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Meet Jasper: open-source voice computing
| Meet Jasper. He’s like Siri, but much better, in that it’s open-source and completely customisable. All you need to set up your own is a microphone, a speaker, and a Raspberry Pi. Jasper already comes with modules to deal with things like time, weather, Gmail, playing your Spotify music, news (and what’s on Hacker News)…and knock knock jokes. You can build your own modules to add more functionality. We’re really impressed by how well-documented Jasper is; new developers should be able to get to grips with building on the platform very easily, and we’re looking forward to watching what you guys get up to with it. |
Back by popular demand: Marketplace Reports Training
 OverDrive's Training Team is excited to reintroduce OverDrive Marketplace Reports training now available from the Learning Center. The new "Reports" training menu will expand to reveal four modules covering all of the reports within Marketplace:
Have another OverDrive topic you'd like training around? We would love to hear from you. You can contact OverDrive's Training Team directly at training@overdrive.com.
Anders Brooks is a Training Specialist at OverDrive.
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New SelfPub Writing Award Backed By The Guardian
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But some headway has occurred now that The Guardian has announced its monthly award to recognize self-published works, with the support of industry mainstay Legend Times. According to a press release on the award, the motivation for the move is simply the self-publishing has become too important to continue being ignored. "The phenomenon of self-publishing over the last couple of years has become too big for any of us to ignore. We've showcased some of the proven stars on the Guardian Books website. We're confident that our partnership with Legend Times, who lead the way in industry innovation, will give us a chance to find the brightest and the best in this dynamic new sector," explained Claire Armitstead, Literary Editor of The Guardian. While judges for the award will still include traditional publishing industry professionals, the acquisitions editor for independent publisher Legend Times will also weigh in. Authors may submit one English-language novel per year, always during the initial two weeks of any calendar month. For entries, go to http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/self-publishing-showcase.
New SelfPub Writing Award Backed By The Guardian is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Adobe Drops Support for Amazon Newsstand and Kindle Fire Reading Apps
| Adobe has quietly dropped support for the newsstand aspects of the Amazon App Store and reading apps for the Kindle Fire. Publishers and developers using Adobe DPS will find that Adobe has removed the ability to create an in-app purchase experience and will affect hundreds of companies such as Conde Nast. Adobe DPS is basically the system that hundreds of magazine and enhanced eBook companies use to sell and distribute content. Adobe has created a custom publishing solution that includes access to APIs for integration with back-end publishing services such as subscription management, print fulfillment, and dynamic rich media ad platforms. Publishers also have the ability to create custom viewers, unique HTML5 stores for in-application merchandising of content and services, dynamic serving of targeted, rich media advertising, and access to more in-depth analytic reports through tight integration with SiteCatalyst. Adobe has released DPS30.1 and it only has support for native Android apps. This means ecosystems with custom SDK’s such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble will not allow publishers to utilize the system anymore. This will not affect existing apps, but any new apps that are being made. Adobe Drops Support for Amazon Newsstand and Kindle Fire Reading Apps is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
60% of Teens Own an iPad
| There is no denying that the Apple line of tablets is the most successful. A new report surveyed 7,500 teens and asked them about what phones and tablets they have or plan to buy. 61% of teens now own an iPhone, compared to 55% from a survey conducted in October 2013 and 40% in the fall of 2012. When it comes to tablets, 60% of teens own one, up from 56% in the fall. When it comes to iPad tablet ownership group 66% of teens have one, 55% full-sized, 11% iPad mini. 18% percent of teens who don’t own a tablet expect to buy one in the next sixth months and of those prospective buyers, 66% plan to choose an iPad. Last summer Samsung ran a campaign of advertisements that portrayed Apple users as being uncool. The plan seems to have backfired as iPads and iPhones are still the most popular out there. 60% of Teens Own an iPad is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Walking Dead Season 1 for Android Hits the Good e-Reader App Store
| TellTales masterpiece the Walking Dead Season 1 has finally hit Android 2.3 devices and is available for free at the Good e-Reader App Store. The first episode is free and each one costs a few dollars to play, this pack includes 400 days. The Walking Dead is an epic series that follows Lee Everett who meets and becomes the protector of orphaned Clementine. Many prominent game review companies have proclaimed this series as the best game of 2013. The essence of the game is making decisions in a mortality play. In most cases you choose dialog options and in others you have to swipe the screen to duck, run and dodge walkers. It has been available on iOS, Xbox and a myriad of other game systems for quite sometime and many people have been clamoring for an Android release.The day is finally here and you can play it on your phone, tablet or Nvidia Shield. Download it today from the Good e-Reader App Store. Walking Dead Season 1 for Android Hits the Good e-Reader App Store is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Easy as Pi Piano
| I’m on the fence about whether or not this is an effective way to learn how to play the piano: but it’s definitely an effective way to learn about electronics, Python, servo motors, and why lasers are cool. Shane Snipe and his dad took about 50 hours to put this project together – astonishingly, neither of them had ever written any Python before they started the project. Over at YouTube, Shane says:
Thanks Shane, and thanks Dad! |
Office 2013 classes are now available!
All of our online classes for Microsoft Office 2013 are now available! |
Podcast: New and featured content for April
 Calling all Marketplace shoppers! Our April collection highlights podcast is now available on OverDrive's Learning Center. In it, we give you the inside scoop on some of the highly-anticipated new additions to OverDrive Marketplace, including hit movies from Starz Digital Media and popular textbooks from Pearson. We also highlight the latest crop of publishers and streaming video suppliers to partner with OverDrive, whose content you can expect to see in Marketplace soon. As always, we wrap up our podcast with our personal picks for the month, news about sales, and additional tips about placing orders in Marketplace—all in under 15 minutes. You can access our Collection Highlights: April podcast now through the end of the month on OverDrive's Learning Center (find it in the "Collection Development" section). We hope to see you there!
Carrie Smith is a Technical Writer at OverDrive.
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Just touched down in London Town
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We will also be giving a presentation titled, "Connect with Readers Around the World" that will cover our HTML5 reading platform, OverDrive Read. You can check this out both Wednesday, April 9 at 1:30pm-1:50pm, and Thursday, April 10 at 3:00pm-3:20pm in the Technology Theatre to learn how OverDrive Read has simplified the eBook reading experience, making borrowing titles on the go easier and more engaging than ever. Visit us at stand #V500 Tuesday through Thursday, and if you weren't able to make it to the London Book Fair this year, be sure to follow us on Twitter and check out the hashtag #LBF14 for all the latest from the conference!
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OverDrive eReading Rooms Engage Libraries’ Youngest Patrons
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But one area where digital adoption has traditionally been slow to take root is in children’s and teens’ books, a fact that digital content provider OverDrive is helping to erase with the opportunity for its member libraries to offer digital eReading Rooms. These virtual spaces work much the same as a physical location that caters to young library patrons, but still keeps the need for digital adoption in mind. A recent blog post from OverDrive outlined how one library in San Antonio is making headway with the incorporation of two eReading Rooms, one for younger readers and one focused specifically for teens. “The San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) is committed to providing the best possible customer service to our patrons, and kids and teens represent large segments of our patron population. The ability to customize the collections within the eReading Rooms allows us to tailor the content to align with library initiatives like the Summer Reading Program and Teen Tech Week and yearly themed content such as National Poetry Month and Women's History Month. Also, developmentally appropriate material is now more easily accessible to teachers and parents since content can be searched by reading and interest level. These eReading Rooms bring attention to the great richness of SAPL's collections, while helping us to accommodate the evolving interest that our patrons have for accessing content digitally,” explained Caitlin Cowart, Community and Public Relations Manager, in the post. While Cowart went on to explain that a project like this is not a catch-all solution for encouraging reading and library participation, it is a valuable tool for reaching patrons where they are and for making the library an important part of the community for all citizens, not just the few who come to the physical location for content, education, and technology needs. “The library understands that the digital marketplace is maturing. Remote, online access to library content and resources that is personalized and user-friendly drives the virtual user and positions SAPL as a responsive, innovative resource for a new, technology-conscious generation of library patrons.”
OverDrive eReading Rooms Engage Libraries’ Youngest Patrons is a post from: Good e-Reader |
E-reading Leading to Alarming “Digital Brain” Phenomenon
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In some ways, the widespread adoption of digital reading has lead to an illusion that more consumers than ever before are reading, even if that doesn’t necessarily translate into book consumption or publishing sales. Whether it’s Facebook status updates, text messages, or War and Peace, people are reading. But is this a case of quantity over quality? An article by Michael S. Rosenwald in the Washington Post has highlighted the dangers of having so much content available literally at our fingertips, leading to a phenomenon researchers are calling “digital brain.” Essentially, there is so much to read now that consumers are merely skimming the content, looking for the highlights and a few keywords before moving on to the next activity. Besides training our brains to enjoy an attentive-deficit-disorder approach to reading, scientists fear we may lose the capacity to read for in-depth understanding, knowledge enhancement, and pure enjoyment. According to the interview, "I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing," said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Wolf’s fear seems to be a valid one, considering the development of the human brain over time to reach the capacity we now have for the written word. But what may be even more alarming than our continued ability to read and enjoy the written word is the devaluation that this skimming behavior brings to literature and news. As our online world takes precedence and we train ourselves to look for the shorter sentences that permeate digital text, will our ability to read and enjoy the classics suffer? Researchers like Wolf say yes. But while some are alarmed by this apparently unnatural evolution towards a different mode of reading, we have to remember that we no longer speak like Shakespeare’s audience members or write like Chaucer’s early fans. The evolution of written content isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as long as the capacity to find interested reading remains intact.
E-reading Leading to Alarming “Digital Brain” Phenomenon is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Apple Requests Stay in Proceedings
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The trial and subsequent proceedings have not gone well for the tech giant, with Apple’s attorneys openly stating that this amounts to nothing more than a witch hunt and that the judge presiding over the suits has agenda against Apple. While the publishers involved in the case settled out of court but maintain that there was no wrongdoing–citing that the settlement terms were ultimately less expensive than the legal fees to fight the lawsuit–Apple was not offered that opportunity yet has remained smugly confident that it will come out on top. In this recent motion, Apple’s attorneys state their confidence in winning the pending appeals is the deciding factor. In their minds, if and not when they win, the proceedings would be undermined if they were allowed to move forward at this time. Apple has had its share of pain in this process, with an outsider moderator appointed to oversee the company’s dealings in order to avoid future antitrust violations. The company was accused of not playing nicely with its court appointed moderator, leading to new appearances in court to be reminded that they will comply with the ruling and turn over crucial documents in a timely way to this moderator. Apple is awaiting the May court date to determine the damages they will pay for attempting to oust Amazon in the e-reading market by colluding with publishers to artificially raise ebook prices. Although the early figures on the damages seem staggering on the surface, the 200-plus million dollars can actually be tripled under punitive damages regulations; that resulting $800 million–give or take a few million–would be approximately .5% of Apple’s cash on hand.
Apple Requests Stay in Proceedings is a post from: Good e-Reader |
