PCWorld says eBook publishers Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers and Simon & Schuster have agreed to pay $69-million to 54 US state, (correction: districts and territories) as part of their settlement and penalty for being co-conspirators in the Apple Agency Model price-fixing scheme that put them, and others in the crosshairs of a US Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit.
The Guardian reports that Amazon will launch Kindle Fire 2 tablet on Thursday, September 6 after the first  (and now discontinued) version’s sales top 6-million units.
GoodeReader looks at the new Sony Xperia Tablet.
The National Post posted on Kobo’s shrewd move to ink deals with Indie bookstores in the U.S. that will keep the struggling shops relevant by providing eBook titles, eReaders and tech.
Pocket-Lint tells us that Barnes and Noble is moving its Nook eReader into the UK market.
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Apparently the actual article says “54 U.S. state, districts and territories….” — was sitting here thinking the publishers are in worse shape then I thought if they actually signed an agreement to pay out to *54 states* as your summary says.