My Obsessions

“Apple injected much-needed competition and innovation into the e-book business,” said Orin Snyder, a lawyer at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who represents Apple. “The DOJ’s case is based on fictions and incomplete quotations. The actual evidence proves that Apple did not conspire to fix prices in the e-book business. We look forward to trial.”

Only in the Bizarro universe does an increase in competition lead to higher prices.

Haven’t I been saying this for years? It’s why I won’t buy myself an iPad.

The Web site Insider Monkey posted a story Monday, quoting a “highly placed source inside Microsoft” saying that the company has no plans to buy Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media group. Last week, citing documents it said it had seen, TechCrunch reported that Microsoft was prepared to offer $1 billion to buy Nook Media and that B&N would phase out the sale of Nook devices.

Don’t mean to pick on Donna Fasano (aka Donna Clayton), but why is it that Reece, epublished in 2012 by Donna Fasano as part of her Single Daddy Club series, is actually Beauty and the Bachelor, by Donna Clayton, a 1997 Silhouette Romance? More to the point, why did I have to research this to find out? My guess is that the rights to the book reverted back to the author, but that Harlequin owns the copyright. If anyone knows, please enlighten me!