{"id":1420,"date":"2009-03-27T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:48:57","slug":"apple-in-a-bit-of-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Apple in a bit of hot water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will make <strong>Amazon&#8217;s<\/strong> day. <strong>Kindle<\/strong> 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&#8217;re &#8220;entitled to fair compensation.&#8221; Read the story <a title=\"Rumble in the Jungle...\" href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/news\/afp\/20090317\/tc_afp\/usitinternetpatentkindleamazondiscovery_20090317223716\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple<\/strong> is being sued by an overseas communications company for a patent violation because they&#8217;re marketing their iPhone as an eBook reader&#8211;and the complainant says the iPhone ain&#8217;t such a device. Read the story <a title=\"Fight in the Orchard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/09\/03\/24\/apple_sued_for_promoting_iphone_as_ebook_reader.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. Their lawsuit says: &#8220;the firm takes issue with Apple&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love it. Any market that can support multiple lawsuits is a going concern, <em>yah<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=13&#038;l=ur1&#038;category=harrypotter&#038;banner=1J0FZGQYRKKN19GRRSG2&#038;f=ifr\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will make Amazon&#8217;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&#8217;re &#8220;entitled to fair compensation.&#8221; Read the story here. Apple is being sued by an overseas communications company for a patent violation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1420\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"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=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}