Macmillan CEO Confirms Dispute With Amazon Over eBooks
January 31st, 2010 admin
Topics: amazon, apple, digital publishing, gadgets, kindle, macmillan, news, publishers, top stories
The news about the Macmillan price feud with Amazon over the pricing of electronic books has been confirmed by Macmillan CEO John Sargent in a paid advertisement on Publishers Lunch. In the message, addressed to “Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent community,” Sargent relates that he met with Amazon this past Thursday to discuss new terms of sale for eBooks under the “agency model.” In this model, Macmillan as publisher would sell digital editions of books to customers through retailers, who as the agents of the sale would take the typical 30% commission standard in many digital media industries. Whereas currently Amazon caps the retail price of eBooks …
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