Supreme Court Rejects Apple's Appeal - PW (Publishers' Weekly)

Panzer was out tootling around in the Catosphere today, when the Panzermobile was buffeted by a huge gust of wind. Going in the direction the wind had come from, took our brave kitty boy to the Publishers' Weekly site. It took no digging at all to find a post about the results of Apple's petition to United States Supreme Court.

Panzer discovered the buffeting wind that hit the Panzermobile had actually been a collective sigh of relief. Our kitty boy told you back in January that Apple had appealed their conviction of ebook price-fixing to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to a post by Andrew Albanese, the Supreme Court rejected Apple's appeal, finally bringing the case to a close. This means Apple will now be responsible for paying $400 million in refunds to ebook buyers.

Okay. Clean up your mess now.

The case has stretched on since beginning in 2011, when Apple was first accused of ebook price-fixing. Since being found guilty of price-fixing in 2013, Apple has used every means their attorneys could come up with to avoid the court financial settlement. Now, in addition to the refund to ebook buyers Apple also will pay $50 million in legal costs to their attorneys.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... If you humans would have listen to this little kitty and paid the money to the ebook buyers three years ago, you could have saved most of those attorney fees."

Note: This is a long post with links to other posts included in it. You'll need a thermos of tea and six muffins for your reading. If you want to read Panzer's post from January too, add two more muffins.

To read the post about the Supreme Court decision, tootle over to Apple appeal

To read Panzer's post about Apple's appeal, tootle over to Apple Supreme Court appeal

 

Amazon's Book Review Policy - Part 2

Panzer got woken up from his afternoon nap today by yowling and hissing. When our big brave explorer kitty got the Panzermobile fueled up and out into the Catosphere, he discovered the noise was coming from the Indies Unlimited site.

Panzer found a guest post by Brenda Perlin whose ebook review got rejected by Amazon. In an email to Ms. Perlin it was stated Amazon's rationale was that the reviewer "rules" say no reviews for authors/persons you know are accepted. Amazon determined she knew the author/person the review was for and so the review was rejected. Our kitty boy posted about a similar ebook review rejection earlier this week. According to this Indies Unlimited post, a petition has been started to get Amazon to change their review policy.

I'm busy. Leave me out of it.

Panzer says, "I'm not taking sides in this new war with Amazon. I've got other work to do right now ... like take a nap ... and eat ... and take a nap. You know important cat work."

Note: The post isn't that long. but the comments section is. So ... if you plan to read the comments, you will need a h-u-g-e cup of tea.

To read Brenda Perlin's post, tootle over to Amazon reviews
To read Panzer's post from earlier this week, tootle over to book review policy