Sentences with phrase «dispute over ebook pricing»
Back in 2010, Amazon pulled the buy buttons from Macmillan titles in a dispute over ebook pricing.
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There has been much debate over the ebook pricing dispute that's emerged between retail giant Amazon and Hachette, a large multinational publisher.
My complaint is with the way Amazon handled print books in this matter, not with the Amazon - Macmillan ebook pricing dispute, over which I still haven't developed an informed opinion because it is so fricking complicated.
David Naggar, VP of Kindle content and independent publishing, sent a letter to a few Hachette authors, literary agents and Authors Guild president Roxana Robinson over the weekend suggesting that «for as long as this dispute lasts, Hachette authors would get 100 % of the sales price of every Hachette ebook we sell.
The dispute over the price of ebooks flared up in May, when Amazon removed the pre-order button for some Hachette titles, including JK Rowling's latest detective novel.
Hachette's famous ebook pricing dispute with Amazon may be over but its shadow stretched over yesterday's CEO panel at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair.
For those who are unaware, the retailer and the publisher have been locked in a dispute over contract terms; Amazon wants to remain under the wholesale model in which it gets to determine the price of the ebooks it sells, even if that means taking a loss in order to pass the savings on to the customer, and Hachette wants to go to the briefly - instituted agency model in which the publisher determines the price.
Now it seems the dispute over pricing has resumed: last month, Amazon pulled out 4,000 ebooks from one of the biggest distributors in the US, the Independent Publishers Group (story in the New York Times here).