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The Words Apple Didn't Want To Hear: Class Action

U.S. district judge Denise Cote has ruled that a group of consumers can sue Apple. Reuters has the story.

"This is a paradigmatic antitrust class action," wrote Cote, who has scheduled a trial later this year to determine damages, which could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

Star Maidens

A visit to, and from, the planet Medusa, where women are in charge.

Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series made by Portman Productions for the ITV network. Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976— Wikipedia.

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Piracy, Authors, and Readers: Who Benefits; Who Loses

It's easy to make rules; harder to get at the facts. The Digital Reader takes a look at piracy, authors, and readers, and why simple rules don't work. Also, lynching the innocent.

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A New Round of Litigation for Apple, Publishers

In DNAML vs. Apple Inc. et al, filed in September, 2013, the upstart Australian e-book retailer alleges the company was harmed "directly and as a proximate result" of the 2010 price-fixing scheme executed by Apple and the five agency publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan and Penguin). Now, this month, two related cases have been accepted by Cote: one filed by Lavoho, LLC, a "successor" to the Diesel eBook Store; and another from Abbey House Media, formerly BooksonBoard.

Publishers Weekly expands on the story, which could mean another round of litigation for all concerned, although one of the companies involved, DNAML, may be a one-person venture, according to the publishers, and the other two are comparatively small and not overly successful.

A Self-Publishing Journey

Publishers Weekly has a new column following the self-publishing journey of one journalist/writer.

E-Book Settlement Payments Arrive

Publishers Weekly reports that the funds from the e-book price fixing settlement have begun arriving in comsumers' hands. Under the terms of the agreement, the deal is structured to encourage spending the money on more books.

The Rise—and Fall—of Facebook likes

—maybe the lesson for marketers is simpler than it seems: Facebook likes are only as valuable as the actual sentiment behind them. That is, unless people genuinely like your posts—in the original sense of the term—getting them to hit like on your brand page isn’t going to do you a lot of good. And maybe that's the way it should be.

Slate examines how and why Facebook has changed the reach of Facebook likes and what that means for marketers, especially those with small businesses.

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She

A lost film, recovered from Buster Keaton's garage, and colorized by Ray Harryhausen.

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