Barnes & Noble is miffed that DC Comics entered into an exclusive deal with Amazon for e-book distribution of DC titles. How miffed? Enough to pull the same titles from B&N store shelves. The company claims that if it can‘t…
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Google Books Comes To The UK
07
Oct
Cheap tablets from competitors may have had one effect on Google. Amazon has released the Kindle Fire as a convenient front end to its massive store with expectations that the Fire will be sold globally. Google Books was never available…
California Enacts Book Purchase Privacy Law
04
Oct
California has enacted the Reader Privacy Act (S.B. 602) which requires search warrant to access customer data on regular and e-books purchased online or from bricks-and-mortar store. All the law and privacy groups are cheering. Here’s the ALCU press release,…
Exposing Oneself in Public Not Good Enough Reason for Firing Professor
01
Jul
A University of New Hampshire professor admitted exposing himself to a mother and her teenage daughter in a grocery store parking lot but an arbitrator ruled that the University could not terminate his employment. Under the University’s “moral delinquencies of…
