Apr 09 2015
HarperCollins is "preparing to return" to an agency model for all e-book sales from April 14 which requires retailers to sell at prices set by the publisher.
Last week, Business Insider, which is partly owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, said that the current contract between HarperCollins and Amazon will soon expire and that "HarperCollins is refusing to sign an agreement with the new terms that Amazon is asking."
Apparently Amazon has offered an agreement like the ones signed last year by Hachette, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan. Business Insider added, "If HarperCollins and Amazon don't come to an agreement, no print or digital HarperCollins books will be available on Amazon once its existing contract runs out 'very soon'."
In the last year, HarperCollins has made inroads into selling direct to consumers which may help protect it somewhat if Amazon retaliate by stopping all sales of HarperCollins titles, as they did for Hachette last year. HarperCollins imprints include Harper, William Morrow, Avon, Ecco, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson and Zondervan.
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