TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » publishers lunch http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Retailers begin discounting Macmillan e-books http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/retailer-begin-to-discount-macmillan-e-books/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/retailer-begin-to-discount-macmillan-e-books/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:04:10 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=82658 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-settles-with-doj-over-price-fixing/feed/ 11 Free e-book from Publishers Lunch previews upcoming releases from Michael Pollan and others http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/free-e-book-previews-upcoming-releases-from-michael-pollan-and-others/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/free-e-book-previews-upcoming-releases-from-michael-pollan-and-others/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:39:28 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=78274 The ever-popular Publishers Lunch website has just released an entirely free e-book, Buzz Books 2013 Spring/Summer. It’s filled with 488 pages of pre-publication excerpts from 28 different titles that are due to be released during the upcoming spring/summer seasons. (A small number of the book’s sneak previews have very recently been published.) The e-book offers an [...]

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