{"id":10877,"date":"2012-04-20T11:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:27:34","slug":"ebook-news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10877","title":{"rendered":"eBook News Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a title=\"Canadian Lawyers get into the Apple lawsuit act.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/article\/1163883--ebook-price-fixing-lawsuits-hit-canada\" target=\"_self\">TheStar.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong> says that Canadian lawyers have now joined in the suit against price-fixer\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Apple <\/strong>and\u00c2\u00a0publishing co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>Our friend <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> dropped by with a link to <strong><a title=\"Bookstores better than Amazon.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketbomber.com\/2012\/04\/09\/amazon-is-a-soul-sucking-leech-on-the-book-business\" target=\"_self\">Rocket Bomber<\/a><\/strong> where writer <strong>Matt Blind<\/strong> outlines some of the reasons that a bricks and mortar store beats<strong> Amazon&#8217;s <\/strong>digital might.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong><em><a title=\"Apple wants to go to trial.\" href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2012\/04\/19\/bring-on-e-book-pricing-trial-apple-lawyer-says\/\" target=\"_self\">the Financial Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <strong>Apple <\/strong>wants to go to court to defend itself against <strong>U.S. Justice Department<\/strong> charges that it was involved with a price-fixing conspiracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheStar.com says that Canadian lawyers have now joined in the suit against price-fixer\u00c2\u00a0Apple and\u00c2\u00a0publishing co-conspirators. Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to Rocket Bomber where writer Matt Blind outlines some of the reasons that a bricks and mortar store beats Amazon&#8217;s digital might. According to the Financial Post Apple wants to go to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10877\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,12,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10888,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}