In a world locked down by the near global «
war over ebooks» Sweden is different.
Perhaps not to North America, where the rhetoric in the wake of the «
war over ebooks» is at its loudest and where the global nature of the English speaking market affords the largest publishing houses to take a position of splendid isolation.
The legal
war over ebook pricing rages on but there's no need to avoid the skirmish.
To state the obvious, we are in the middle of
a war over those ebook profits.
Not exact matches
2 min readThe
eBook pricing
war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle
over the price of
eBooks.
The bad news bears are always loud in their opinions that traditionally published books are winning the publishing
war and dominating market share against
ebooks, and especially
over self - publishing.
The debate
over whether e-version intellectual property should have the same price tag as «hard copy» intellectual property
wars on, but the fact is that
eBooks have been downpriced since their inception, and significantly so.
They have announced a simultaneous launch of their own
eBook store at the same time, setting the scene for an all - out
war with Apple and Amazon
over the future of the digital
eBook market.
They have announced a simultaneous launch of their own
eBook store at the same time, setting the scene for an all - out
war with Apple and Amazon
over the future of the digital
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Amidst news of Amazon's apparent surrender today in the
war with Macmillan
over ebook pricing, the highlighted book on Macmillan's home page is Priceless, subtitled «The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)»:
The
eBook pricing
war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle
over the price of
eBooks.
Perhaps it's easy for me to say, being out of the
ebook pricing
wars now (i.e., safely retired), but much of the publisher angst
over ebook pricing terms to libraries strikes me as responding to problems that haven't yet materialized, and in fact may not.
Twice now, Hachette and major publishers have waged
wars with Amazon
over the price of
ebooks.