Warner Bros launch film scripts as e-books

Ben Hur and Casablanca are among the film scripts to be released as e-books for the first time by Warner Bros.

Other movies in the Inside the Script series will include An American in Paris and North by Northwest.

The e-books include items such as the shooting script, production notes, storyboards and on-set photographs.

"Now we can give fans rarely seen details of how these stories came together," said Thomas Gewecke, Warner Bros president of digital distribution.

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Apple rejects e-book pricing collusion charge

Apple has rejected the U.S. Justice Department's allegations that it colluded with publishers over electronic book pricing, calling the charges "simply not true", the Wall Street Journal reported.

"The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry," Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris told the Journal.

The U.S. government had sued Apple and five publishers, saying they conspired to fix the prices of electronic books, and reached a settlement with three of the publishers that could lead to cheaper e-books for consumers.

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