As expected, the U.S. Department of Justice filed against several large ebook publishers--and Apple. The DOJ alleges that the companies colluded on pricing for ebooks in violation of federal law. which is certainly a better counter argument than "yep, we're guilty as sin."

Some observers say that the DOJ's case will be a boon to Amazon, handing that company the ebook market. We debated ; one theory holds that if the DOJ emerges victorious in its case, ebook prices will see a race to the bottom, with cheap ebooks spreading like a virus. An analogy we use only to facilitate a segue into...

Man, Flashback had a good week (in terms of press attention), but a lousy one (in the sense that it's pretty much dead now).