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US authors and publishers oppose Amazon control of .book websites

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March 13, 2013, 1:23 pm TWN

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Groups representing U.S. authors and publishers called Monday on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to deny online retailer Amazon exclusive rights to websites ending with .book, .author, or .read.

ICANN is considering nearly two thousand requests for new web address endings, ranging from the general (.shop) to the highly specialized (.motorcycles).

Many of the requests are from large companies such as Apple, Mitsubishi and IBM — with Internet giant Google alone applying for more than 100, including .google, .YouTube, and .lol — Internet slang for “laugh out loud.”

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