Publisher to Challenge E-Ruling

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NEW YORK — Random House Inc., which last week lost a bid for a preliminary injunction that would have stopped an online publisher from selling several older Random House titles as electronic books, says it plans to file an appeal Wednesday of the judge’s decision.

In a statement, Random House, a unit of German media group Bertelsmann AG, said it believes “the district court misconstrued the prior cases dealing with ‘new technological uses’ by emphasizing the mode of delivery as opposed to the content.”



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