This Section V.F shall not prohibit a Settling Defendant from communicating (a)
in a
manner and through media consistent with common and reasonable industry practice, the cover prices or wholesale or retail prices of books sold
in any format to potential purchasers of those books; or (b) information the Settling Defendant needs to communicate
in connection with (i) its enforcement or assignment of its intellectual property or contract rights, (ii) a contemplated merger, acquisition, or purchase or sale of
assets, (iii) its distribution of another E-book Publisher's E-books, or (iv) a business arrangement under which E-book Publishers agree to co-publish, or an E-book Publisher agrees to license to another E-book Publisher the publishing rights to, one or more specifically identified E-book titles or a
particular author's E-books.