Law

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

12 December, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 law will not impact [Read More ...]

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

13 October, 2016 // 4 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 book in that state. I cited the Scrivener's [Read More ...]

Donald Trump: Amazon has “a Huge Antitrust Problem”

13 May, 2016 // 25 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 voters he had driven over into the [Read More ...]

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

27 February, 2016 // 16 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, and the media in general. Speaking [Read More ...]

Minnesota Man Cited for Reading James Patterson While Driving

23 January, 2016 // 3 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, Minnesota this week for swerving and driving [Read More ...]

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

1 October, 2015 // 5 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 that situation changed for readers in the UK. [Read More ...]

Delaware Passes Law Which Makes eBooks and Other Digital Content Inheritable

19 August, 2014 // 5 Comments

Do you know that clause in the TOS for the Kindle Store and many other digital content stores which says that the content is licensed to you and is nontransferable? The state of Delaware just [Read More ...]

Used eBook Sales Now Illegal in Europe (For The Moment)

19 April, 2013 // 22 Comments

Used ebooks are a hot topic right now, with Apple and Amazon each pursuing a patent over reselling digital content and as a result sparking a debate on the legality, ethics, and morality of a [Read More ...]

Connecticut is About to Force* Publishers to Sell eBooks to Libraries

25 January, 2013 // 13 Comments

If you shared my dismay yesterday when you read the details about Macmillan's library ebook pilot then I have something to cheer you up. A new bill has been proposed in the Conn.General Assembly that [Read More ...]