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For publishers, negotiating terms of sale with Amazon has always been difficult. But reports last week of Amazon’s hardball tactics with the Hachette Book Group suggest that this year’s negotiations could be among the most brutal yet.
Amazon, it seems, would like to call regulator attention to potentially anti-competitive practices, while at the same time, screwing...
Among the issues in dispute between Amazon and the Hachette Book Group are negotiations over new e-book terms, sources familiar with the matter said. And publishers also see the latest fight with Amazon as part of an ongoing battle to retain retail diversity.
Book startups face a number of challenges -- not least of which is the fact that they are competing with Amazon.
Judge grants class action status to plaintiffs seeking $800 million.
At Amazon, a negotiation is not considered successful if both sides benefit, according to “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.” Amazon must win it all.
Company barred from fixing book prices, but it could have been worse.
After years of lowering book prices, Amazon is offering smaller discounts on some books. Authors and small publishers said this put some books beyond an audience’s reach.
After reading through the full 160-page opinion from U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in ruling against Apple in the ebook price fixing suit, Adam Engst attempts to answer the many questions raised by those who haven’t taken the time to absorb all of what Cote said.
I can't blame you if you haven't been following the Department of Justice's suit against Apple and (originally) five other book publishers for price fixing in the eBook market. It's kind of arcane and weird, but it's an arcane and weird thing that may affect the entire electronic book market, and if you're the kind of book reader who looks at gamers flipping out about DRM that places unreasonable requirements on the user and thinks "there but for the grace of God go I," you might want to pay attention. Just in case.
SERIOUSLY?! I can't even.
In 2007, former Yahoo executive Chris Williams decided it was time to make money off fan fiction. "I work for a brand-new fan fiction website called FanLib.com and my colleagues and I want it...
Amazon's search for new authors of fanfic is a shrewd attempt to professionalise one of the native art forms of the web, writes James Bridle
The huge scientific publisher sparks resentment by gobbling up a popular online gathering place. Sound familiar?
A small fraction of Americans buy the vast majority of books in this country. Goodreads gives Jeff Bezos & Co. a direct line into their thoughts and habits.
Alarm from Authors' Guild, and many Goodreads users, over 'shocking vertical integration' but at least one writer declares move 'cool'
Six less obvious reasons for Amazon to purchase Goodreads.