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Consumer Advocacy by a Library Association: ALA asserts at Midwinter and in meetings with publishers "you need to deal with libraries and you need to do it as soon as possible"

06 Feb

Recently several elected ALA officers plus an association official and a task force chair met face-to-face with senior executives of Penguin, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Perseus in New York City. At issue was publisher policies and practices…

 

eBook Price Fixing Charges Leveled Against Apple and Five the “Big 6” Publishers in Class Action Complaint

12 Aug

paidContent’s Laura Hazard Owen reviews the class action lawsuit filed on August 9, 2011 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Penguin alleging the defendants unlawfully fixed…