Just one day after wrapping up the Apple ebook price fixing trial, Judge Cote is in the midst of a different publishing industry-related lawsuit. Last Friday Penguin filed a motion to dismiss a class action-seeking lawsuit filed on April 26 by three authors against Author Solutions, which Penguin acquired in July 2012. In the motion, Penguin alleges the lawsuit from three ASI customers — Jodi Foster, Kelvin James, and Terry Hardy — was a “misguided attempt to make a federal class action out of a series of gripes by two of them about alleged typographical and formatting errors and supposed […]
