A new lawsuit demanding $5 billion in damages because of alleged false advertising over Apple Books lacks the understanding that digital books are licensed and not owned.
Apple Books
Apple Books
Apple famously faced and lost a “very ugly” lawsuit in the earliest days of what was then called iBooks. That was a startling misreading of the law, but regardless, the suit made Apple pay out $450 million.
And now a law firm figures it can get 11 times that amount in another spurious case.