Apple is also required to hire an outside non-Apple employee who will oversee all of
its future deals with publishers in order to avoid anti-trust violations.
Not exact matches
Is that a hint that
deals with publishers will be changing in
future?
They could also coordinate the whole process as a service for their clientele, establishing a concrete list of tangible services to promote the book, report and analyze sales, use their influence in the marketplace to get a better
deal for the author in the
future with a traditional house or a better
deal through ebook
publishers — while also managing subrights and the author's career.
Terrill Lee Lankford wrote recently about how he turned down a
deal with a major
publisher in the middle of negotiations over a new book, because the
publisher wanted him to agree to a
deal for a
future e-book that would have given the publishing house 75 percent of the revenue.