Mar 18 2010
Rumors swirled today that Amazon could revoke the buy buttons for books by Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin, or Hachette if the major publishers can't strike an eBook deal with the online bookseller.
Jan 28 2010
Publishers are looking on Apple's iPad as a chance to reset the downward spiral in e-book prices. Yesterday, when Steve Jobs announced the new iPad he also confirmed that five of the six largest publishers have signed on to provide e-book content for the new tablet. Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster are all on board, while a spokesman for Random House, the world's largest publisher of books for consumers, said the company would "look forward to our continuing conversations" with Apple.
Apple and publishers have agreed a business model that gives them more power over the price that customers pay for e-books - control that had been effectively lost with Amazon's Kindle. With Apple, the maximum price of an e-book will be tethered to the print price of the book so that most general fiction and nonfiction titles will be $12.99 to $14.99 with Apple taking 30% and the publishers taking 70%.
In the short term it is likely that authors and publishers will earn less from book sales on the iPad because Amazon subsidizes the low $9.99 price point on the Kindle by paying publishers a higher wholesale price equivalent to what booksellers typically pay for print editions. The worry for all publishers, though, has been that once the $9.99 price point had been firmly established in consumer's minds and Amazon had achieved dominance in the market place, that they would stop subsidizing the $9.99 price point and demand lower digital wholesale prices, which would make it difficult for publishers to make a profit on anything other than the bestselling books.
Jul 08 2008
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) has announced the winners of the 2008 SIBA Book Award, celebrating the best of southern literature, as chosen by the people who would know. . .independent booksellers throughout the South.
Apr 08 2008
This year's Pulitzer Prize winners include
Apr 07 2008
Robert S. Miller, founder and president of Hyperion, announced on Thursday that he was leaving the company to head up a new imprint for HarperCollins. The new division will reportedly focus on publishing short, “popular-priced” books; pay authors low advances—or none at all—but share profits equally with them; and send releases to bookstores on a non-returnable basis.
Nov 14 2007
The New York Times reports that Judith Regan, has filed a 70-page lawsuit that seeks $100 million in damages for what she says was a campaign to smear and discredit her by her bosses at HarperCollins and its parent company, News Corporation, after her project to publish a book with O.J. Simpson was abandoned amid a storm of protest.
Nov 14 2007
The winners of the 2007 National Book Awards are:
Jan 18 2007
Effective March 1, HarperCollins is closing its Regan Books office in Los Angeles.
"We feel our authors will be best served by being integrated into HarperCollins," Michael Morrison, president and group publisher Harper/Morrow, said in a statement.
Harper Collins has announced that it will not publish the controversial book about Mickey Mantle, described as "an inventive memoir", that was scheduled for release by the now defunct Regan Books imprint.
Judith Regan, former publisher of Regan Books, the HarperCollins imprint responsible for a number of controversial but highly profitable titles such as three books about Scott Peterson, was dismissed shortly before Christmas following the furor over the planned memoir by O.J. Simpson, If I Did It, which was canceled shortly before release due to public outrage, with all copies destroyed.
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