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New York Times Spouts FUD About California’s New Memorabilia Law

12 December, 201614 December, 2016DeBunking, Law, LegislationLeave a comment

The NYTimes has finally caught up with the two-month-old story about California's new law concerning autographed memorabilia, and in spite of the multiple opinions that the...

Part Two: No, Authors, California Isn’t Abusing You (or Bookstores)

13 October, 201614 October, 2016Law4 Comments

About a week and a half ago I debunked the FUD about California supposedly passing a law which was going to make it difficult to sell an autographed...

Donald Trump: Amazon has “a Huge Antitrust Problem”

13 May, 201617 May, 2016Amazon, Antitrust, Law25 Comments

Now that Trump is the presumptive GOP candidate for president, some pundits have said that he would tone down his rhetoric and start wooing the mainstream...

Donald Trump Attacks Jeff Bezos, Amazon (Video, Complete Text)

27 February, 20161 March, 2016Law16 Comments

Determined to make orange face paint popular again, Sideshow Donald continued his campaign for the US Presidency this week with a new attack on Amazon, Jeff Bezos,...

Minnesota Man Cited for Reading James Patterson While Driving

23 January, 201623 January, 2016Law3 Comments

Many smartphones and tablets can read ebooks aloud, but that's not good enough for one Minnesota man. Fox9 reports that a man was pulled over in Eagan,...

The UK’s New Consumer Rights Act Will Protect The Right to Return eBooks

1 October, 20151 October, 2015Law, Legislation5 Comments

We've all encountered badly made ebooks, but with only Amazon offering a reasonable return policy there wasn't much that we could do about it. But today...