At BookNet Canada’s 10th annual Tech Forum, a full-day event in downtown Toronto which took place on Friday, discussions centered around ebook pricing, Millennials’ book buying habits, and how publishers can use technology to more effectively market diverse books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller has launched its annual tracker of the publishing's industry's transformation, the FutureBook Digital Census. The survey, which annually attracts more than 1,000 responses from across the book business, looks at the patterns of digital sales growth and industry views on subjects... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the annual event, held last week in Toronto, industry leaders addressed various aspects of digital development in publishing, from ebook pricing and reader engagement to bundling and podcasts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
How much does an ebook cost in Australia, Germany or India? EPub Direct offers an infographic with key statistics on ebook pricing and more. The post Ebook Pricing in Australia, Germany, India: Infographic from ePub Direct appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster in the US and Amazon have signed a new multiyear deal which is a "return to a version of agency" and is also “economically advantageous for both Simon & Schuster and its authors”. An email from Carolyn Reidy (pictured), president and c.e.o. at Simon & Schuster, said... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Internet retailer accused of using tactics from Orwell's 1984 in war of words with the publisher HachetteRepresentatives of George Orwell have described Amazon's selective quoting of the Nineteen Eighty-Four author as "dystopian and shameless" and "as close as one can get to the Ministry of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's fight with Hachette over ebook pricing just got extra-personal. Hot on the heels of writers attacking Jeff Bezos' "retaliation," the Amazon Books Team has posted a Readers United site that calls on you to email Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
After months of wielding the stick, Amazon is trying the carrot—or at least pretending to—in its feud with Hachette over ebook pricing. Early this week, it sent a letter to “a few authors and agents” with a sugarcoated proposal to “take authors out of the middle” of the dispute. So long as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
And whoever comes out on top, you can bet the poor old writer won't be any better offA few weeks ago, we published a book called Denglisch for Better Knowers, a (hopefully) humorous book about how the English language could be improved by taking new words and concepts from German. Like "ear... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our Clip of the Week comes to you in the form of two back-to-back segments from Wednesday night's "The Colbert Report," in which Stephen Colbert first outlines the ongoing battle between Amazon and the Hachette Book Group over ebook pricing, and then, together with his guest, National Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A strong protest from Kobo convinced Canada’s Competition Tribunal to suspend an agreement announced last month between four multinational publishers and Canada’s Competition Bureau regarding ebook pricing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple had no knowledge that publishers were engaged in a conspiracy in December 2009 or at any other point, the company said in its appeal against a district court ruling which found Apple and five major U.S. publishers had conspired to fix ebook prices.The district court’s findings show that... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Publishing Perspectives' Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at controversy over Kobo's new push, at ebook pricing, Frankfurt Academy's CONTEC, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The federal judge who last month found Apple Inc. liable for fixing ebook prices said she plans to limit the remedies sought by the U.S. to ensure they "rest as lightly as possible" on the way the company does business.U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan Tuesday said she intends to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
A judge has just ruled that Apple is guilty of conspiring to raise ebook prices. The federal antitrust suit against Apple over ebook pricing has come to a conclusion: The judge has decided that Apple conspired with five major book publishers to artificially push prices up. Apple denied the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the heart of the debate between publishers and libraries over ebook pricing and lending is a simple question: do libraries increase book sales or cannibalize them? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster just got a little smaller. The publishing division of CBS Corp., known for Bob Woodward bestsellers, Glenn Beck polemics and Stephen King novels, announced Tuesday that it was consolidating its imprints into four publishing groups. Most significantly, the Free Press, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The government views its settlement with, and continuing litigation against, publishers and Apple over ebook pricing as a great victory for consumers. The overwhelming reaction in the book industry, however, is one of bewilderment, with many members believing that the government has no sense of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five of the companies under investigation in Europe over ebook pricing have made representations... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
If Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillian, Penguin and Simon & Schuster thought they only had to contend with a federal ebook lawsuit in the US, they'd better think again. Australia's Competition and Consumer commission is inviting local businesses to raise formal concerns as it weighs... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]