4 posts and columns on William Lynch

U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers

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.

The Nook Doesn’t Need the Cloud. The Nook Needs the Cloud. Discuss.

in Media on November 7, 2011 at 11:49 am PT

Unlike Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble’s new tablet isn’t tied to a proprietary cloud service. The bookseller seems to have mixed feelings about it.
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Spring Design: Here’s How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook

in Media on November 3, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

Puzzled by the weird story of the “Alex,” the would-be e-reader that looks something like the “Nook,” the e-reader Barnes & Noble introduced last month? Then this won’t clear anything up: Spring Design’s court case against the bookseller, which it says broke an “implicit promise” and stole its idea for a two-screen device.
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Rapp Becomes CEO of Gifts.com

in News on June 2, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Jason Rapp, IAC’s SVP of mergers and acquisitions, will become CEO of Gifts.com, an IAC-created gifts recommendation engine. Gifts.com President & CEO William Lynch, who founded the site for IAC (IACI), will transition to HSN full-time as its EVP of marketing and content. He had previously been managing the HSN.com site, while also running Gifts.com. [...]