This will make Amazon’s day. Kindle is being accused by Discovery Communications of violating its development of a digital rights management scheme (their method of adding locks to digital books) and they feel they’re “entitled to fair compensation.” Read the story here.
Apple is being sued by an overseas communications company for a patent violation because they’re marketing their iPhone as an eBook reader–and the complainant says the iPhone ain’t such a device. Read the story here. Their lawsuit says: “the firm takes issue with Apple’s move to distribute digital book reading applications through the App Store, which it subsequently sees as an endorsement by the Cupertino-based company that its touchscreen handset can serve as a capable eBook reader.”
I love it. Any market that can support multiple lawsuits is a going concern, yah!
