They say you should never judge a book by its cover -- it is also important to never judge a book by its price.
Over the last two years, my appreciation for the agency model has grown as I've come to fully understand its benefits for our authors, publishers, retailers and customers. Here's why I support agency.
By Melissa Foster for IndieReader There’s a lot of controversy circulating throughout the publishing industry about the pricing of ebooks, and i...
The rock-bottom pricing of the e-book of Tony Blair's memoir, which is being sold for under £7 by Amazon, has thrown the issue of the bargain-basemen...
Book publishers' eBook deals with Apple and Amazon may violate competition laws, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Connecticut Attorney General...
Print book prices are already fixed in France under the Lang Law, and now Serge Eyrolles for the Syndicat National de l'Edition (SNE), Benoît Bougero...
In the latest round of the book pricing wars, Amazon.com Inc. has begun selling a number of new hardcover books published this month by Pearson PLC's ...
As the agency model takes effect today on many eBooks, Amazon has begun labeling eBooks priced by publishers with a new disclaimer--disavowing their r...
The so-called agency model is a "mirage" with Apple dictating to publishers what they can charge for books sold via the iBook Store on Apple's iPad, a...
You'll notice a major book publisher is missing from this slide: Random House, the biggest one in the world, actually. That's because it's afraid of ...
rom today, Australia's e-book market will swell to more than 2 million titles when the international chain Borders launches its digital bookstore in A...
Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding t...
Media businesses--whether music, movies, books, magazines, or newspapers--seem to cling to a pricing model that fails to account for the significantly...
If you want to see someone frantically struggling to defend an existing analog business model against the disruption that comes from digital, look no ...
[A]ccording to at least three people with knowledge of the discussions, who spoke anonymously because of the confidentiality of the talks, Apple inser...
In the battle over the pricing of electronic books, publishers appear to have won the first round. The price of many new releases and best sellers is ...
Amazon.com says it will give in to publishing giant Macmillan and agree to sell electronic versions of its books even at prices it considers too high....
