{"id":286576,"date":"2011-08-16T14:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/08\/16\/three-percent-12-lawsuits-and-million-dollar-ideas\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:08","slug":"three-percent-12-lawsuits-and-million-dollar-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/08\/16\/three-percent-12-lawsuits-and-million-dollar-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #12: Lawsuits and Million Dollar Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s podcast we decided to talk about a few recent news items, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2011\/08\/lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-price-fixing-attacks-agency-model\/\">this lawsuit<\/a> against Apple that &#8220;alleges that the publishers and Apple colluded to increase prices for popular e-book titles to boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing.&#8221; Yep. <\/p>\n<p>From there we drift off to talk about a range of things, including a million dollar idea to develop a Spotify for books . . . (If you want to invest in this, just give me a call. Please.)<\/p>\n<p>We also touch on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/international\/international-book-news\/article\/48103-dubai-publisher-makes-u-s-debut.html\">this <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> article<\/a> about Dubai&#8217;s Dar-El Shams Books opening up a U.S. branch in Boston and the total insanity of doing &#8220;market research&#8221; for books. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s a pretty solid podcast . . . And if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future podcasts, please email me at chad.post[at]rochester.edu.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s music is <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/KzsXbH-yljs\">Cheap Music<\/a> from the Handsome Furs excellent new album, <em>Sound Kapital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/three-percent-podcast\/id434696686\">here<\/a>. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/listen.googlelabs.com\/\">Listen<\/a>, copy the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=broadcast_3p\">link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s podcast we decided to talk about a few recent news items, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2011\/08\/lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-price-fixing-attacks-agency-model\/\">this lawsuit<\/a> against Apple that &#8220;alleges that the publishers and Apple colluded to increase prices for popular e-book titles to boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing.&#8221; Yep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67446],"tags":[19636,42126,41876,42136,42116,1886],"class_list":["post-286576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-percent-podcast","tag-apple","tag-lawsuits","tag-podcast","tag-publshing-perspectives","tag-spotify","tag-three-percent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335326,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286576\/revisions\/335326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}