Comments on: Sometimes it feels like Amazon is trying to make the publishers look ridiculous

By: Freddo

Freddo — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:12:19 +0000

David, if you follow the link it explains Apple and the publishers were given a slap on the wrist.

At this point they could probably do with another one.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 21:22:45 +0000

“So it made a deal with five of the Big Six publishers (Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan; Random House, then the biggest trade publishing house, abstained): They could all sign on to Apple’s agency model, as long as they guaranteed that they’d also use that same agency model with every other retailer they worked with. That way, Amazon, too, would be forced to sell its ebooks for $14.99 — and if it refused, publishers could withhold their ebooks from Amazon and make them exclusive to Apple.”

If this isn’t an illegal conspiracy in restraint of trade, it certainly gets very close to the edge of being one.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:11:02 +0000

There are a lot of ebooks listing at $2.99. These are not available in print. They seem to be the literary equivalent of straight-to-DVD.

I have a feeling this is where the real action is. The long tail.