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June 4, 2014By Michael Cader

Getting Things Straight: Two Wonky But Important Hachette/Settlement Things People Get Wrong

June 4, 2014By Michael Cader

We’ve been doing a lot of talking to other members of the press the last couple of weeks (mostly on background) helping to explain some of the details of the legal issues around ebook pricing — and we’ve been reading a lot of articles, as usual. There are two important errors/misunderstandings, both in press accounts and even among some well-informed industry people, that keep getting repeated as if fact, so we wanted to clear that up for you. 1. One is the idea that “Hachette is up first” according to the court’s schedule for staggered renegotiations of e-book contracts with […]

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