Friday News: DOJ delivers a sharp retort; Amazon sets date to announce new Kindles; and Tom Sawyer + Steampunk?

The DOJ filed its response to the resistances filed against the request that Judge Cote approves the settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster. If you’ve read Courtney Milan’s brilliant piece that books are not special snowflakes, you’ve read the DOJ’s retort which uses the same case law (and admittedly why wouldn’t they) and the same language, falling short of implementing the term “special snowflake.”

If you haven’t read Milan’s piece, the upshot is this. Every industry i...