Reports are surfacing this morning that the US Department of Justice intends to announce a filing against Apple Computer and five publishers charging pricing fixing in the e-book market.  The announcement is anticipated for noon today.

It was announced this week that the 2010 32-volume set of Encyclopedia Britannica will be the last printed edition of the publication.  The tome is usually updated every two years, but the announcement confirms the end of a publishing history going back almost two and a half centuries.