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The E-Book Pricing Promo War is Heating Up

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:40:29 +0000

“Publishers are beginning to do more aggressive e-book price testing,” according to a brief news item that appeared on the Publishers Weekly website yesterday. “Both Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Storey Publishing have recently announced monthly pricing promotions that set prices for a selection of titles at no higher than $2.99.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt‘s promotion, which [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:15:24 +0000

A Publisher’s Year: Rebooting the Book (National Post) Over a Third of eReaders Are Used Just Once (The Digital Reader) . eBooks and the Race to Publication (Good E-Reader) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Acquires Award-Winning Culinary Program (Daily Finance) Kindle Daily Deal: Robert Kroese’s Mercury Trilogy {and} The Named by Marianne Curley * * * Follow us @TeleRead [...]

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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:49:21 +0000

Bartlett’s Quotation’s New Digital Face (Good E-Reader) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Buys Webster’s New World Dictionary (MediaBistro) Publisher Earnings Roundup: Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster (Paid Content) E-books Marketshare at 22%, Amazon has 27% (Publisher’s Weekly) Kindle Daily Deal: Twelve Months by Steven Manchester {and} Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf * * * Follow us [...]

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Barnes & Noble reportedly instructs local stores to pull Amazon titles

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:04:50 +0000

Yesterday, shoppers discovered that Barnes & Noble is carrying books from Amazon Publishing’s New York imprint in stores around the country, despite the company’s insistence that it wouldn’t do so. Following our story’s publication yesterday, I learned that Barnes & Noble headquarters sent an email to its branches around the country telling them to pull [...]

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B&N and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to sell Nooks loaded with content to schools

Paul Biba — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:30:05 +0000

From the press release: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced a ground breaking program aimed at utilizing technology to develop a love for learning. The partnership offers schools the opportunity to acquire award-winning HMH digital titles on pre-loaded [...]

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American Booksellers Association joins Amazon publishing boycott

Chris Meadows — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:40:53 +0000

Publishers Weekly reports that the American Booksellers Association has become the latest bookstore entity to join the boycott of books produced by Amazon’s publishing arm. Indeed, the ABA’s for-profit subsidiary, IndieCommerce, has begun removing those titles from its database. IndieCommerce director Matt Supko wrote in an email announcement that the move was in response to [...]

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Amazon signs print distribution deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for Amazon-published books

Chris Meadows — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:04:38 +0000

PaidContent reports that Amazon has officially reached an agreement with publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to print and distribute all titles published by Amazon Publishing everywhere in North America outside of Amazon.com itself. This will allow Amazon to work around B&N’s insistence on not carrying any print book it cannot also sell electronically without having to [...]

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