Peter Kafka in Media on April 16 at 7:00 am PT
Index Ventures re-ups, and DFJ joins in.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 13 at 9:40 am PT
Customers, yes, but Apple and the book-publishing industry — not so much.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 11 at 8:49 am PT
Apple competes ferociously with Amazon. But the feds say Cupertino considered a different strategy, where Apple would rule music and movies, and Amazon would rule e-books. Really?
Chad Bray and Brent Kendall in Media on April 11 at 7:39 am PT
The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Apple Inc. and five of the nation’s largest publishers, alleging they conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-books.
Kara Swisher in News on April 5 at 6:28 pm PT
Irving has left the purple building.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on April 4 at 9:00 am PT
More
tablet experimentation from publishers, this time via reading apps
Pulse and
Zite. Pulse, which already offered readers excerpts from Bonnier’s Popular Science magazine, will now be doing that with 20 other Bonnier titles. And Zite will be bringing content from eight publishers — including VentureBeat, CNN and AOL’s Huffington Post — to its apps.
Voices
Thomas Catan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on March 25 at 10:09 pm PT
The Justice Department’s top antitrust official says she won’t stand by quietly if companies make agreements with rivals on price, signaling a stern stance as the department conducts a high-profile probe into electronic-book publishing.
Kara Swisher in Media on March 15 at 9:30 am PT
Can’t we all just get along? Yes! Hollywood grabs a piece of Silicon Valley content tech.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on March 9 at 3:50 pm PT
Chegg, the on- and off-line textbook rental service, has raised
$25 million in an inside round. A PR rep for the company says the money will be used for the “growth of the business and is lead by existing investors.” Chegg says insiders aren’t selling shares in conjunction with the raise.
Thomas Catan and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in News on March 7 at 9:07 pm PT
The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
