Hasta La Creative!

Eddy Cue, a senior vice president at Apple, denied the government’s charges that the company was working with e-book publishers to raise prices.

The Justice Department has claimed that the publishers used Apple as a conduit to communicate with each other; Apple lawyers have sought to portray the conversations as normal business proceedings.

The government presented evidence that executives of big book publishing companies discussed raising e-book prices at Apple’s behest before the introduction of the iPad.

The process of selling commercial time before the start of the 2013-14 season is, so far, following the pace of the 2012-13 season.

Flash sales have taken hold in the book business, helping older books soar from the backlist to the best-seller list.

In a year that was monopolized by the “Fifty Shades” erotic novels and knockoffs, e-book sales in fiction rose 42 percent over the year before, to $1.8 billion.

A government adviser has suggested that manufacturers pay a 1 percent levy on the price of the devices to finance French movies, music and books.

Leaders in other industries may be well paid, but they earn far less than their media counterparts.

Comedy Central will use Twitter to host a comedy festival. The partnership between the two companies represents the evolving relationship between television and social media.

A federal judge’s ruling could halt the resale of digital music as well as other digital good like e-books.