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Are you surprised that you pay so much for an e-book?

A US judge is confident that government evidence will prove Apple knowingly participated in a conspiracy to raise the price of ebooks, ahead of a trial due to start next month.

US District Judge Denise Cole is set to oversee the trial starting 3 June and this week gave her views during a pretrial hearing, and although she stressed her tentative view was not final, she believes the US government can prove Apple engaged in a price-raising conspiracy with five book publishers. Apple is the sole remaining defendant in the case, after the five publishers accused of colluding with Apple to set ebook prices all settled with the US Department of Justice. “I believe that the government will be able to show at trial direct evidence that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of ebooks, and that the circumstantial evidence in this case, including the terms of the agreements, will confirm this,” Cote said.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/470945/20130524/apple-ebook-price-fixing-judge-comment-blow.htm

 

Penguin pays $75m to settle ebook price-fixing case

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/23/penguin_agrees_to_pay_75m_ebooks/

 

 

Very Famous Faces – A Word a Week

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/a-word-a-week-challenge-face/

Maybe you have seen this before…

If not :-

This can be addictive so be careful.

It kept me up one night.

How many famous  faces can you identify?

Click on the picture or

Click here for the big picture

Jakesprinters Sunday post – Windows

Shop Windows

Little town in Italy with charming shops.

Free after hours!

 

Another illusion….

I have seen this before, it is not new but today it was in timeline photo’s.

Move your hand from right to left over the picture and see how the face changes.

Illusions are such fun!

Click on the picture to make it bigger

The (un)truth be told :(

Sorry I have to be very, very careful what I say on my blog for everything gets a twist and a tail.

And thereby hangs a tale!

BTW

Don’t forget the free download  link of the Great Gatsby on my previous blog

FREE – The Great Gatsby

From  http://www.ereadingtrends.com/the-great-gatsby-ebook-is-free-dont-waste-money-buying-it/

 

The Great Gatsby eBook is Free – Don’t Waste Money Buying It!

Published May 12, 2013

It irritates me to no end when I see big companies trying to capitalize off of a book being turned into a movie so they can rake in every little cent that they can squeeze out of consumers.

Unfortunately that is the case with The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Ever since it has been turned into a movie, ebookstores everywhere are trying to make as much money as possible off of what is a public domain ebook that is freely available (in most countries except the U.S.) to anyone who knows where to get it.

At Amazon, The Great Gatsby is currently the #1 bestseller in the Kindle store. That shows just how popular the ebook is right now. Amazon is charging $4.99, which isn’t half as bad as B&N who is selling it for a ridiculous $10.93. Sony has it for $9.62 and Kobo has it for $7.99. In my opinion that is way too much to pay for an ebook, much less one that was published in 1925 and is now in the public domain.

None of those ebookstores want you to know that you can simply go to Feedbooks.com and download The Great Gatsby for free in ePub, Mobi (for Kindle), and PDF formats. What I like about Feedbooks is their ebooks are nicely formatted, so there’s no reason to go spend $5-$10 elsewhere.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that everyone is trying to cash in on the success of the movie, but I still don’t like it. The same thing happened to George Martin’s A Game of Thrones, which used to sell for $6.99 in ebook form until HBO started airing the Game of Thrones TV series. Then it shot up to $9.99 and has remained there ever since.

The Great Gatsby eBook is Free – Don’t Waste Money Buying It! | The eBook Reader Blog.

http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5543/the-great-gatsby

Jake’s Mothers day

 

http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/sunday-post-mothers-day/

Amazing Things in the World – Timeline Photos.

 

In 2008, a chimpanzee named Anjana adopted and raised two baby white tigers named Mitra and Shiva.

Patterns and Optical illusions

Back to patterns.

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/photo-challenges/

So by the way re the zebra –  Form of camouflage called disruptive coloration that breaks up the outline of the body.

In the evening or dawn when predators are most active zebras seem to look indistinct. = an Optical illusion or what?

 

Some patterns can create optical illusions, example the one below.

Can you see it move- and does it really?

http://www.moillusions.com/2013/03/eye-of-the-dragon-illusion.html

 

 

Daily Post Photo Challenge – PATTERNS

 

Nature does it BEST!

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/photo-challenges/

 

Why do zebras have stripes / patterns  at all? Scientists aren’t sure, but many theories center on their utility as some form of camouflage. The patterns may make it difficult for predators to identify a single animal from a running herd and distort distance at dawn and dusk. Or they may dissuade insects that recognize only large areas of single-colored fur or act as a kind of natural sunscreen. Because of their uniqueness, stripes may also help zebras recognize one another.

Also watch this beautiful clip (if you have not yet seen National Geographic’s Patterns in the Grass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzO4SpQhIwk