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Average price of best-selling e-books on the decline

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:45:57 +0000

E-books seem to be costing consumers less money. Digital Book World tracks the prices of e-books on the best-sellers lists every week. Last week, the news site found e-books on the lists averaged more than $8 a book. After a week where a new publisher (Macmillan) allowed discounted prices, the average price of e-books on [...]

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One publisher, Tor/Forge, truly understands reader engagement

Juli Monroe — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:42:03 +0000

It’s easy to always talk about publishers who get it wrong, and yes, lots of them do. Bookish, anyone? (Where you can get recommendations, but it’s all a one way street, and many, if not most, of their articles are aimed at books or authors published by the houses behind the site.) Tor, an imprint [...]

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Retailers begin discounting Macmillan e-books

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:04:10 +0000

Retailers are finally discounting Macmillan-published e-books – nearly two months after it settled its Department of Justice’s price fixing case. Prices of e-books have been lowered on sites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, according to Publishers Lunch. This includes books such as Silver Linings Playbook, Killing Lincoln and Ender’s Game. That leaves Penguin [...]

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BREAKING: Macmillan Settles with DOJ on Price Fixing

Juli Monroe — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:30:07 +0000

Apple is now the lone hold-out. As you may recall, three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster—immediately settled, leaving Penguin, MacMillan and Apple to fight it out in court. Penguin settled in December, probably to protect their pending merger with Random House. And now Macmillan joins its fellows. Macmillan CEO John Sargent cited financial reasons [...]

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Morning Links — Is the piracy debate coming to an end?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:25:07 +0000

The piracy debate may well be irrelevant in the future of publishing (Tools of Change) Piracy is yesterday’s worry for today’s ‘artisan authors’ (The Guardian) Macmillan to launch two-year ebook library lending pilot (Paid Content) This Clever Resume That Looks Like an Amazon Page Is So Good I Would Buy It (Gizmodo) Kindle Daily Deals: [...]

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Morning Links — What’s the best iPad keyboard?

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:00:01 +0000

Best iPad Keyboard? (Lifehacker) iPads Replace Newspapers in Boston Globe School Donation Program (Paid Content) Younger eBook Readers Three Times More Likely to Discover New eBooks Through Social Media (Digital Book World) MacMillan to Launch Two-Year Library eBook Pilot (The Digital Reader) Kindle Daily Deal: The Siege of Krishnapur (and 3 others)

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Macmillan Says Renegotiated E-Book Deals Allows Some Discounting

Aggregated Content — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:26:44 +0000

Macmillan, the last of the major publishers still fighting the U.S. Justice Department over antitrust charges, says it has renegotiated its e-book deals with retailers to allow some discounting. In an open letter posted on his book-publishing company’s website Wednesday afternoon, Macmillan Chief Executive John Sargent said the firm is still committed to fighting [...]

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Morning Links: Wikipedia and the future of news

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:18:33 +0000

What Wikipedia Can Tell Us About the Future of News (GigaOM) Children’s Digital Profit Down at Scholastic As Hunger Games Fades and Digital Investment Ramps (Digital Book World) MacMillan Vows to Participate in Library eBook Lending (Good E-Reader) Dickens, Reserialized (The Digital Shift) Kindle Daily Deals: Terminal Value by Thomas Waite (and eight other books!) [...]

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Morning Links — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:30:38 +0000

MacMillan Dictionary to be Strictly Digital (Good E-Reader) The Holiday Wish List of Books (An American Editor) Flat World Knowledge to Drop Free Textbook Access (The Digital Reader) The iPad Mini: The Most Dangerous Competitor to the iPad Yet (Dear Jane) Kindle Daily Deal: Wonder Boys & One Love * * * Follow us @TeleRead [...]

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E-Book consumers to receive refund of $0.25 – $1.32 per title in price-fixing settlement

Matthew Marchesano — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:32:50 +0000

Over the past few days, a wealth of information has surfaced regarding the $69 million settlement three of the so-called ‘Agency Five’ publishers will be paying to 54 states and U.S. territories for the alleged price-fixing of e-books. Still, information regarding what we consider to be two of the case’s more immediately fascinating aspects—the cash refunds due to consumers, and the [...]

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Three Publishers Settle with 49 States

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:55:21 +0000

Bloomberg Businessweek seems to have been one of the first publications to report that 54 attorneys general in (49 states and five American territories) have collectively reached a $69 million antitrust settlement with Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers LLC and Simon & Schuster Inc., “over alleged price-fixing for electronic books.” According to a press release from the [...]

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Tor/Forge announces its e-books are now completely DRM-free going forward

Chris Meadows — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:44:52 +0000

We reported that it was coming, and now it is here: Tor announces, via Tor.com, that all Tor e-books currently being sold anywhere are now DRM-free. Any Tor e-books bought from now on from any retailer that sells them will have no DRM. (Whether previously-purchased Tor e-books include DRM is up to the individual retailer. [...]

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Crain’s New York Business profiles Tor DRM-free e-book store plans

Chris Meadows — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:06:15 +0000

Crain’s New York Business has a profile of Tor’s plan for a DRM-free e-book store. (The article is paywalled, but you can read it via Google News search.) It summarizes the situation with the DoJ antitrust lawsuit, and points to that suit and the success of the DRM-free Harry Potter e-book store as the reason [...]

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Tor/Forge to launch DRM-free direct-to-consumer e-book store

Chris Meadows — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:56:52 +0000

Tor/Forge has announced, via a posting to blog Tor.com, the impending creation of a direct-to-consumer DRM-free e-book store, to carry SF books from Tor and fantasy books from Forge. The store is scheduled to go live sometime in “the summer of 2012,” which meshes with Tor’s prior announcement that all its books would be going [...]

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Judge stays price-fixing class-action suit against Hachette, HarperCollins

Chris Meadows — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:13:08 +0000

PaidContent reports that a judge has stayed an e-book price-fixing class-action case against publishers Hachette and HarperCollins on the grounds that the publishers are close to settling with state governments over the matter, and the states’ lawsuits trump the class action. Apart from Macmillan and Penguin, who are fighting the suit, Simon & Schuster wasn’t [...]

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