Ebook lawsuit

• WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc and some of the major publishers suspected of colluding to push up electronic book prices, according to two people close to the negotiations.
(Huffington Post)
• The U.S. Justice Department plans to sue Apple and five U.S. publishers for alleged price-fixing on e-books, according to The Wall Street Journal.
(CNET News)
• John Wiley has identified some of the anonymous individuals it accuses of downloading books like "Vegetable Gardening for Dummies," and is pushing forward with lawsuits against hundreds of other book-sharing "John Does.
(paidContent.org)
• So, you've just finished watching Scarlett Johansson in the film version of "Girl with a Pearl Earring, and decide that you want to read the book by Tracey Chevalier on which it was based. You log on to Amazon.
(The Fiscal Times)
• Apple may be ready to make important concessions to settle a possible Department of Justice lawsuit over e-book pricing, a pair of sources claimed Friday. Although not concrete, a deal could come in the next few weeks, the Reuters insiders said.
(Electronista)
• The Justice Department is warning the biggest U.S. ebook publishers that it plans to sue them for colluding to raise their prices, The Wall Street Journal reports.
(The Business Journal)
• The Justice Department is threatening to sue Apple and five major publishers for allegedly colluding to raise the price of digital books.
(NPR News)
• A group of Chinese authors has sued Apple this week, claiming the tech giant has been selling unlicensed copies of their ebooks via their iOS App Store. The 12 writers are seeking $3.5 million in damages for 59 books and three separate lawsuits.
(Afterdawn.com)
• The e-book case demonstrates the market leverage Apple has gained and increase its dominance of personal computer software provoked an antitrust lawsuit that unsuccessfully attempted to break up the company.
(York Dispatch Online)