Sentences with phrase «battle over ebook»
(«Truce called in battle over ebook rights» via The Guardian)
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On the Monday after the weekend when Amazon and Macmillan faced off in a dramatic battle over eBook pricing, I turned to James McQuivey, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, for his perspective on who won, what the stakes are, and what might lie ahead.
Not exact matches
The world's largest online retailer and the huge publisher have for months been in a nasty and at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get for eBook sales.
In the ongoing legal battles involving Apple over antitrust violations in an ebook price fixing case, it seems the technology giant just can't catch a break.
With Amazon losing the eBook price battle with one of the big publishers (Mcmillian Publishing Group with 350 companies operating in over 80 countries), what implications will this have on the direction of the eBook market?
Whilst the UK and the US publishing industries gird their loins to do battle with libraries over ebook lending, the Swedes are just quietly and efficiently getting on with it.
They have found a way to temporarily counter the second, by forcing Amazon to price eBooks no lower than $ 15, which is what the battle with Macmillan was fought over.
Among the many reasons that ebooks have not taken over is one that may be key, they are not significantly cheaper, as a result of bloody battles between publishers and Amazon.
Amazon and publishing company Hachette remain in negotiations after a very public brawl over ebook pricing, and Amazon's pulling out some down and dirty trick to win its battle, including jacking up Hachette book prices.