Random House Finally Sells eBooks In Apple's iBookstore

Yesterday, at Apple's media event, Steve Jobs announced that Random House is signing on with the store, bringing 17,000 eBooks.

Even before the announcement yesterday, their content began to appear in Apple's iBookstore.

Just days ago, Random House released that it would adopt the "agency model" for eBooks, meaning that they would set consumer prices for the eBooks they publish and then give 30 percent commission to retailers. The publishing house was initially hesitant about this setup, afraid that it might negatively impact profits.

Random House was the last of the big 6 in publishing to partner with Apple. When Apple's iBooks launched last April, HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster all signed on from day one.

Random House material was previously only available on the iPad through the Kindle application, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.

Comments

[Micheal Crayton]

08:11 AM on 03/06/2011

Thanks for good information another good free ipad ebooks site : http://www.thereadingsite.net

[fla kracker]

11:55 AM on 03/04/2011

Although You could read Random House's content on Ipad using B&N or Amazon kindle app it was very inconvenient because if you are out of the country neither of those allowed you to purchase and download. This is at least true where I am in the Bahamas. Ibook on the other hand has always been available here.

[ewj1]

07:55 PM on 03/07/2011

I used the kindle app purchase and read the BVI, Singapore, and a number of other places without issue. It was on the ipad.

[fla kracker]

08:58 PM on 03/07/2011

When i try to purchase books in the Bahamas B&N and Amazon say unable to download in this country. I haven't been to Europe since I got the Ipad