May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling
Search Results by tag: agency model
Seventeen more U.S. states, including New York, have joined the class action lawsuit against Apple, Macmillan, and Penguin, accused of allegedly colluding to raise the price of ebooks. Unlike the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation, ... Read More »
Publishers Lunch reports that the three publishers opting to settle the antitrust lawsuit launched today by the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed to drop the agency model for a period of two years. However, ... Read More »
April 11, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
News broke earlier today that the U.S. Department of Justice is pressing ahead with a lawsuit against Apple and the five original "agency" publishers for allegedly colluding to raise the price of ebooks. According to ... Read More »
April 11, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
Sarah Palin creates outrage over the White House inviting rapper Common to its Evening of Poetry Random House U.K. signs to agency model, with over 6,000 titles to appear in the iBookstore E-bookseller iFlow shuts ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
At Wednesday's launch of the iPad 2 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that 17,000 titles from Random House U.S. will now be available in Apple's iBookstore. Titles began appearing on the iBooks ... Read More »
March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
Representatives from Google met with publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week and revealed that the long-awaited Google Editions will debut (in the U.S., at least) this year, despite rumours to the contrary. According ... Read More »
October 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Today's book news: HarperCollins U.K. scapegoats typesetter for Freedom blunder Freedom also being recalled in Australia ... Read More »
October 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
Linkety-link-link: U.K. publishers cautioned about legal issues surrounding agency model Robert J. Sawyer's FlashForward canceled by ABC Best books to ... Read More »
May 14, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
Here's the day's links: J.K. Rowling may possibly one day if she feels like it write another Harry Potter book Visual artists grab torches, join authors in storming the Google fortress Breaking down the iPad's ... Read More »
April 7, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
No foolin' here, just the straight dope: Borders escapes death-watch via refinancing Shocker! Amazon goes to agency model with HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster Non-shocker! Wolf Hall among Walter Scott Prize nominees Marcel Theroux, Kim ... Read More »
April 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news