This is the interesting/relevant part of the opinion: "In addition, Apple has access to a dispute resolution mechanism which has and will be in place to ensure that the Monitor does not exceed the bounds of the Injunction."
I wonder what that mechanism is and why Apple hasn't used it.
The most interesting thing in the article was the data presented by the "Library & Book Trade Almanac".
Quote:
It[sic] 2008, when Amazon had a lock on the market, it reported that the average price of an adult fiction e-book in the U.S. in was $8.71. In 2009, as more people self-published books, the average dropped to $8.21. In 2010, when Apple introduced its agency model for e-books, the price dropped 14 percent to $7.06. And when publishers were up and running against Amazon in 2011, the average price of an e-book sank by an astonishing 32 percent — to $4.83.
So, despite all of the anecdotal accounts of book prices increasing, which I don't doubt that some book prices did increase, the average price of e-books dropped when Apple opened the iBookStore. This is also in stark contrast to the, apparently, cherry picked data presented by the DOJ.
This isn't just against the best interest of the American people, but a travesty of justice. If the DOJ and courts were really interested in helping the American people they would have been looking at Amazon's predatory practices and monopoly of the e-book market.
What i wonder is how is this:
So many people hate Apple. These people typically love Google. Google has tonnes of money and their hands in many pies. How are they not continually in trouble with the u.s. government?
Google did want to scan every book and make it free, but the US government is such a buzzkill. Something about copyrights and IP and such. Personally, I can't wait to read Pride and Prejudice with ads for dating sites in the margin.
Google did want to scan every book and make it free, but the US government is such a buzzkill. Something about copyrights and IP and such. Personally, I can't wait to read Pride and Prejudice with ads for dating sites in the margin.
The events that have transpired (and continue to transpire) over the course of this "e-book scandal" are just mind boggling. I've followed the whole thing fairly closely and the thing that continues to be painfully obvious is that the judge and the handling of the case by the Feds has been anything but fair and impartial. Unbelievable.
This judge is a puppet for the DOJ and her buddy is her slave who doesn't even know what he's doing. I don't know how she can be a judge when she does not adhere to what a judge is supposed to be which is impartial or neutral. She convicted Apple way before the trial began and tosses anything Apple puts in front of her including live witnesses with her dribble. Apple easily proved Amazon got in the book business exactly the way Apple was doing. And when Apple entered the book market book prices fell to as low as $4.35 for a book. The only monopoly is this judge, the DOJ and Amazon who must have paid a pretty penny for this charade to keep its monopoly itself which is also interesting. Accusing Apple of a monopoly when Amazon is actually the monopoly holder in this case. Go figure. Can't wait for the Appeals court for which I hope they actually have an impartial judge that will look at both sides not just Amazon's and the DOJ.
I got to say, the frothing at the mouth fanboism on this site never gets old...
You haven't seen fanboism until you've seen someone go to the trouble of actually completing the process of registering an account on a forum with a name that's a pretty silly attempt to ridicule somebody who's obviously on their mind quite a lot.
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Um, I am a member of the "American public" and I don't find this to be in my interest in any way whatsoever.
I am right there with you on this one. It is disgusting that our government acted in a way that strengthened a monopoly by Amazon.
The Salon recently did a very good article on this at http://www.salon.com/2014/01/12/amazons_bogus_anti_apple_crusade/
The most interesting thing in the article was the data presented by the "Library & Book Trade Almanac".
So, despite all of the anecdotal accounts of book prices increasing, which I don't doubt that some book prices did increase, the average price of e-books dropped when Apple opened the iBookStore. This is also in stark contrast to the, apparently, cherry picked data presented by the DOJ.
This isn't just against the best interest of the American people, but a travesty of justice. If the DOJ and courts were really interested in helping the American people they would have been looking at Amazon's predatory practices and monopoly of the e-book market.
Google did want to scan every book and make it free, but the US government is such a buzzkill. Something about copyrights and IP and such. Personally, I can't wait to read Pride and Prejudice with ads for dating sites in the margin.
No, the scanning project was not about Google making every book free. :rolleyes: There's probably a reason others repeating the same story never attach any citations to it. If you're really interested "Google limits how much book text you can view online ... it doesn’t display ads on pages describing books it does not have rights to"
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/google-2/
http://www.ala.org/news/node/9704
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/11/18/google-books-lawsuit-dismissed-all-society-benefits-says-judge-chin/
The events that have transpired (and continue to transpire) over the course of this "e-book scandal" are just mind boggling. I've followed the whole thing fairly closely and the thing that continues to be painfully obvious is that the judge and the handling of the case by the Feds has been anything but fair and impartial. Unbelievable.
Can't wait for the Appeals court for which I hope they actually have an impartial judge that will look at both sides not just Amazon's and the DOJ.
I got to say, the frothing at the mouth fanboism on this site never gets old...
Even more funny, if one realizes that most of the fan"bois" here are middle aged men...
LOL
Keep it going Apple-tards!
Who needs The Onion when one has Apple Insider?
I got to say, the frothing at the mouth fanboism on this site never gets old...
Even more funny, if one realizes that most of the fan"bois" here are middle aged men...
LOL
Keep it going Apple-tards!
Who needs The Onion when one has Apple Insider?
Apple may be guilty of raising eBook prices. But installing such a monitor is witch hunt. You know witch hunt is wrong with modern day standards.
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Someone forget to change your diapers?
You haven't seen fanboism until you've seen someone go to the trouble of actually completing the process of registering an account on a forum with a name that's a pretty silly attempt to ridicule somebody who's obviously on their mind quite a lot.
Now THAT'S fanboism!
Is this thread still live? Testing.
Looks like it, TS.