Book publisher Macmillan, like Simon & Schuster and Hachette before it, has signed a new contract with Amazon and will return to agency pricing on its ebooks starting in 2015. In… Read more »
Hachette Book Group will start selling books straight from tweets, though it can’t be labeled more than an experiment for now: The publisher has partnered with digital distributor Gumroad to sell… Read more »
In the deal that Amazon and Hachette Book Group finally reached Thursday after months of bitter negotiations, we don’t really know which side “won,” if one side did. But one survivor… Read more »
Amazon and book publisher Hachette have finally reached a deal in the contentious and public negotiations that have been going on since May, the companies announced Thursday. Read more »
Scribd is adding about 30,000 digital audiobooks to its $8.99/month ebook subscription service, helping its offering to stand out from competitors Oyster and Kindle Unlimited. Read more »
More than 1,000 authors in support of Hachette reached out to Amazon’s board of directors Monday, decrying Amazon’s treatment of Hachette titles. Read more »
Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch spoke out Sunday, saying that “Amazon is seeking a lot more profit and even more market share, at the expense of authors, bricks and mortar… Read more »
As Amazon and Hachette’s contract battle continues, a letter in support of Hachette will run in the New York Times this weekend, signed by more than 900 authors. In response, Amazon… Read more »
Amazon is proposing that Hachette authors receive 100 percent of the sale of each of their ebooks during the companies’ ongoing negotiations. But the letter it sent this week may largely… Read more »