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it's Wednesday April 11 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded the United States Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against apple and several book publishers / fixing the price of e-books the lawsuit filed in New York District Court Sue's publishers hatchet HarperCollins macmillan simon & schuster and penguin for colluding with Apple to raise the price of e-books the core of the issue comes down to the rules Apple set for being in its bookstore before Apple got into the e-book game Amazon was selling ebooks for cheap at around ten dollars and was on figured cheap ebooks would entice folks to buy a kindle and publishers weren't too happy because that just made it harder to sell hardbacks Apple changed the game though with the iPad to get on the iPad publishers had to follow a new rule they could set their own book price but no other online ebook store could sell it for less so if Amazon wanted to sell a book they couldn't discount it to stay competitive the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone just launched this week but some models have been found with a software glitch where the phone cannot get a data connection Nokia says a fix will be out by Monday but Nokia is also giving one hundred dollars to new and existing customers to make up for the problem the phone costs a hundred dollars so you're basically getting the Lumia 900 for free but the offer is only good until April 21st there's a lot riding on the launch of the Lumia 900 this is Nokia's big comeback into the u.s. Spotify is making it easy for website owners to embed songs albums or playlists on a site the streaming music service launched the Spotify play button it lets website owners embed the player for free and Spotify will take care of the logistics of paying the artists but in order to use the play button you have to be a spot of our user we're used to seeing shortcut buttons to share an item on facebook or twitter now amazon and ebay have added a button for sharing an item on Pinterest Pinterest is an online pinboard for users to share interesting items and it's grown to become the third most popular social network Jim Gaffigan is the latest comedian to release his entire stand-up special online without restrictions for just five dollars Gaffigan is ditching the traditional model of using a production company and it on itunes or through DVD and is following the footsteps of comedian louis c.k who produced his own special and sold it directly to fans online in december in just 10 days louis ck made a million dollars now Gaffigan special mr. universe was produced on his own and he's encouraging fans to spread the word one dollar from every sale will be donated to help veterans and their families comedian as cease Ansari also followed the solo route recently putting his special online for five dollars back in March those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded