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Feds May Smack Apple With Ebook Suit Today

UPDATED

Apr 11, 2012 10:41 AM CDT

Feds Sue Apple Over E-book Price Fixing

Allege Apple deal with publishers drove up prices

(Newser) - The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five of the US' biggest book publishers over allegations that they conspired to fix the price of e-books ahead of the iPad's launch, the Wall Street Journal reports. The conspiracy allegedly aimed to drive up prices, which had...

Glenn Beck Launches
Own Book Imprint

Jun 1, 2011 1:50 PM CDT

Glenn Beck Launches Own Book Imprint

First non-Beck book is by... a YA author?

(Newser) - Glenn Beck may be leaving Fox but you’ll still see a lot of him at the bookstore. Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster both to publish a bunch of Beck’s own books, and to create Mercury Ink, a division devoted to...

Shame on You,
Simon & Schuster

OPINION

Feb 2, 2011 12:28 PM CST

Shame on You, Simon & Schuster

Tim Rutten: Marketing of 'O' is outright 'deception'

(Newser) - Now that we know McCain adviser Mark Salter is the author of O: A Presidential Novel, Simon & Schuster has some 'splaining to do, writes Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times . Marketing campaigns don't have to win prizes for honesty, "but they are supposed to stop somewhere just...

Publishers Delay E-Book Releases by 4 Months

Dec 9, 2009 7:31 AM CST

Publishers Delay E-Book Releases by 4 Months

Simon & Schuster, Hachette protest deep discounting of e-books

(Newser) - Taking a stand against the cut-rate $9.99 pricing in the fast-growing e-book market, two prominent publishers will start delaying release of e-books until four months after hardcovers come out. "The right place for the e-book is after the hardcover but before the paperback," Simon & Schuster tells...

Cheney Signs
Deal to Write
Memoir

Jun 23, 2009 9:10 PM CDT

Cheney Signs Deal to Write Memoir

(Newser) - Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster. The memoir is expected to be published in spring 2011, a few months after George Bush's book comes out. Financial terms were not disclosed, though a publishing official with knowledge of the negotiations figured it...

Simon & Schuster to Sell Ebooks on Scribd.com

Jun 11, 2009 6:20 PM CDT

Simon & Schuster to Sell Ebooks on Scribd.com

(Newser) - Simon & Schuster is going to put about 4,500 book titles for sale on a relatively new website that caters to e-readers, reports BusinessWeek. The publisher, which handles authors such as Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, and Dan Brown, said the ebooks will be available starting tomorrow on...

Ivanka Snags Book Deal

Nov 21, 2008 10:43 AM CST

Ivanka Snags Book Deal

(Newser) - Ivanka Trump sees herself as a motivational figure, and a prominent book publisher agrees, reports the New York Post. The one-time model, 27, says the tome will present a "positive perspective with the women of my generation.” A Simon & Schuster rep called the aspiring author and tycoon...

Top-Secret Woodward Tome Gets a Name

Aug 19, 2008 11:20 AM CDT

Top-Secret Woodward Tome Gets a Name

White House braces for debut of Iraq-centric The War Within

(Newser) - Bob Woodward’s fourth book on the Bush White House, originally a mere 352 pages, has ballooned into 496 pages of inside dope and is due in stores Sept. 8, Politico reports. And the mystery-shrouded volume, which focuses on the Iraq conflict, officially has a name: The War Within: A ...

Publisher Sues Lil' Kim,
Foxy Brown

Jul 25, 2008 10:11 AM CDT

Publisher Sues Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown

Sez neither produced books they were paid for

(Newser) - Simon & Schuster Inc. sued rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim yesterday, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered. The publishing house wants Brown to return a $75,000 advance she received in 2005 for an autobiography called Broken Silence and wants Lil' Kim to return the...

Audio Books Lose Copy Protection

Mar 3, 2008 12:02 PM CST

Audio Books Lose Copy Protection

Major publishers' downloads can be played on all devices

(Newser) - Some major book publishers are planning to remove anticopying protections from digital audio books, allowing customers who download them to transfer the files between their computers and portable players. The world’s biggest publisher, Random House, will offer all its audio books as unrestricted MP3s this month, reports the New ...