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Judge comes down hard on publishers, Apple in e-book case
In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote rejected requests by Apple and five book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing.Citing ongoing state, federal and international antitrust investigations, Cote turned down arguments that Apple and th...
Federal Judge rejects Apple and publishers' attempt to dismiss civil case alleging e-book price-fixing
Today a United States District Court judge denied court petitions by several...
Apple Could Be Working On A New Authoring Tool That Will Allow Anyone To Build iOS Apps
iOS development could be as easy as selecting a template and filling in the blanks. With its iBooks Author software, Apple has made it incredibly easy for almost anyone to write and publish their own e-book. And it hopes to make it just as easy to create iOS apps. One patent application shows the...
U.S. Department of Justice Names Apple In Giant Antitrust Suit
It’s long been rumored that the Department of Justice would file an antitrust suit against Apple for e-book price fixing, but now it’s happening, as the United States DoJ just filed such a suit against Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin. At issue here is AppleR...
iPad book publisher Inkling does its own free e-book platform
Almost a month after Apple introduced its own interactive e-book publishing platform, iBooks Author, iPad publishing startup Inkling is introducing its own version, called Inkling Habitat.Habitat is free and cloud-based and is aimed at professional publishing houses — not just anyone who wa...
Comic creator's iBooks Author experiment nets 10,000 downloads in 3 days
Apple’s iBooks Author impressedDiesel Sweeties creator and artist R Stevens so much that he created an e-book with it during the course of a weekend and distributed it free to readers. On Thursday, Stevens shared some interesting details about that experiment.The book Stevens created, an ar...
Apple education event live blog
We’re here at Apple’s education event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The company is expected to launch a set of tools that allow self-publishing of textbooks and possible partnering with textbook makers to push a digital learning initiative. The event and our live blog wil...
Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app for easy interactive e-book authoring
Apple’s Roger Rosner, VP of productivity software, showed off Apple’s new iBooks Author on Thursday at Apple’s special media event in NYC. iBooks Author is a Mac app that provides tools to help anyone publish interactive digital books, complete with rich media features.iBooks Au...
Apple to help "reinvent the curriculum" with new iTunes U
Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue announced a revamp of iTunes U on Thursday, designed to help teachers create full online courses instead of just creating videos or lectures. The new iTunes U will have its own app, which is similar to iBooks.Courses will appear on a bookshelf,...
Vook: iBooks Author has limited appeal for writers, readers
Following Apple’s unveiling of e-book publishing platform iBooks Author Thursday, I reached out to Vook, the startup founded in 2009 by Brad Inman that provides a top-to-bottompublishing experience using a software-as-a-service model. Vook is currently in private beta post-pivot, but it pla...
