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Update: Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins to modify agency agreements in U.S.

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

Should literary agents be afraid of Amazon?

By Stuart Woods

While Amazon is keeping quiet about the meetings it held last week with top U.S. agents, several commentators have begun to speculate about their significance. Crain's reports that the talks were "freewheeling, frank, and contentious," ... Read More »

November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Has Amazon taken discounting too far?

By Scott MacDonald

In the wake of poor holiday sales in brick-and-mortar bookstores in the U.S. and the U.K., Internet retailers are being accused of coming by their simultaneous sales success unfairly, via overzealous discounting. As reported by ... Read More »

February 4, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling

Resistance is futile

By Nathan Whitlock

Entertainment Weekly’s books editor, Tina Jordan, has been writing about the conundrum she faced when she discovered that her bright, bookish daughter was reading a trashy Gossip Girl novel. Discounting taking the book away as ... Read More »

February 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Update: Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins to modify agency agreements in U.S.

Should literary agents be afraid of Amazon?

Has Amazon taken discounting too far?

Resistance is futile

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