On April 11, 2012, the US Department of Justice made good on their threat to file an antitrust lawsuit  against technology giant Apple and five of the Big Six publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster. Hours after the suit was filed, three of the publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and HarperCollins [...]

The Department of Justice, which has been investigating several major publishers and Apple for possible antitrust violations related to e-book pricing, has indicated they intend to bring a lawsuit accusing Apple and the so-called Agency Five (Hachette, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin) of colluding to fix prices on e-books. Those publishers and Apple moved [...]

Dorchester Publishing’s owner, The Backe Group Inc., founded by John Backe, filed a notice of foreclosure against Dorchester, after failing to collect on an outstanding $3.4 million loan. The notice signaled Backe’s intention to “foreclose its security interest in [Dorchester] and sell at public auction as a single unit,” including the company’s registered trademarks, related [...]

The Science Fiction Writers of America announced to members yesterday that Dorchester Publishing, after failing to fulfill their contractual obligations to SFWA members, has been removed from the list of qualifying SFWA markets. Dorchester was put on probation on December 10, 2010 for not paying royalties when contractually specified and for distributing books in formats [...]

The Philip K. Dick estate has filed suit against Media Rights Capital, which bought the rights to Dick’s “Adjustment Team” in 2009. The estate claims MRC owes them half a million dollars and a percentage of profits from the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau. MRC now claims the story’s copyright has lapsed, citing a 1954 [...]