The agreement, signed on Jan . 8 is an increase over the previous contract, which paid $600,000 in cash annually and 7percentt royalties on licensed products.
In addition to the payment to Mr. Gigli for the town house, the Cambodian government paid $300,000 to another buyer who signed over a previous contract to buy it, according to Mr. Gigli.
Later that month, al-Jarah told top Unaoil executives that al-Jibouri and al-Shahristani were refusing to push a contract toward Leighton Holdings, citing a past spat with Leighton over a previous contract.
In response, Mr. Klebanoff noted that publishers' changed their contracts' language over the last two decades to refer specifically to electronic books, suggesting their previous contracts did not include them.
As previous contracts between the two expire, they have locked horns over ebook pricing, commission structure and marketing, echoing a similar dispute currently frothing in the US between Amazon and the publisher Hachette.
"The previous contracts, we have respected them … all legitimate contracts.
The previous contracts expired Aug. 31, and the unions rejected the university's contract offer.
The new contracts, Doty wrote, "materially changed almost every other aspect of the previous contracts".
Bids from Sprague and another company were due Aug. 21, just over three weeks before the previous contract, also with Sprague, was set to expire.
Garber, whose previous contract expired Dec. 31, took over after the league's first commissioner, Doug Logan, was fired in August 1999.
