Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Legal Eagles
January 08, 2009 | Thursday | 9 Comments
Ellora’s Cave parent company Jasmine-Jade Enterprises has filed suit against Borders to the tune of $1mm US, alleging that “churning,” or “ordering more books than one plans to sell in order to create a credit balance when those books are returned” is crippling them and the publishing industry as a whole. If anyone can dish and explain the legal end, it’s Jane at DearAuthor, but I have one small question:
Once upon a time, I heard rumors that Borders was mighty displeased with the E of the Cave, and I wonder: is this suit a preemptive strike?
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July 21, 2008 | Monday | 51 Comments
Courtney Milan is working on a presentation for the Beau Monde conference, which happens Wednesday 30 July, conveniently out in SF. It’s a mini-con, she says, and her workshop is all about wills, and what they can and cannot do. For example, she says, “they can’t condition the money given on marrying a particular person. Or a slew of other things, ranging from “no violating the Rule Against Perpetuities” (please don’t make me explain that one—it basically means, don’t give stuff to people who aren’t, and might not be, born, but it’s more complicated than that in ways that take…
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May 23, 2008 | Friday | 24 Comments
Maine publisher BookLocker.com has filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against Amazon.com. According to their blog about the antitrust case, a complaint was filed in Bangor, Maine, on 19 May. Publisher Angela Hoy’s synopsis of their decision to file the complaint references what they consider a clandestine effort on the part of Amazon.com to unlawfully force all publishers to use their proprietary print-on-demand technology, using their own market share to advance their printing subsidiary. The complaint alleges that Amazon is demanding an “anticompetitive tying arrangement that violates section 1 of the Sherman Act” and requests a trial by jury. Hoy’s…
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