Site-wide posts tagged with doj

Lots of great material to argue and shout and scream at on the Web over the past week, but the one I want to look at? Konrath versus Lipskar, and the horror of “fungibility.”
JA Konrath’s post is responding to Writers House president Simon Lipskar’s “all books are fungible” theory (written in support of big publishers [...]

The US Department of Justice acting against publishers and Apple working under an Agency model seems iffy. Can you count something as price-fixing, if that is the industry standard costing (though not yet discussing publisher inefficiencies in acting in the digital environment), and this, versus an otherwise predatory pricing scheme?
The joke of this legal action [...]