Laura Hazard Owen
Dec 16, 2011 10:14 AM
$9.99 is often treated as a magic price—the cost of a New York Times bestseller on Kindle back in the good old days, before big-six publishers adopted agency pricing models and ended Amazon’s discounting of their books. However, for a variety of reasons, few readers ever had the chance to…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Media & Publishing, Books, e-books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, agency pricing, e-book pricing, hachette, harpercollins, macmillan, penguin, random house, simon & schuster
Laura Hazard Owen
Sep 2, 2011 10:42 AM
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is moving from periodic e-book sales (like Sunshine Deals and Big Deals) into regular month-long Kindle promotions (along with its Kindle Daily Deals, launched last week). A new section of the Kindle store now offers “100 Kindle books for $3.99 or less,” selected by editors each month.…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, e-book pricing, hachette, harpercollins, macmillan, random house
Staci D. Kramer
Jan 31, 2010 6:09 PM
Five major publishers were highlighted by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) at Wednesday’s unveiling of the iPad and the iBookstore. Two days later, one of them was starring in a different e-reader drama when reports emerged that Macmillan titles were no longer being sold directly by Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN). Macmillan wants to…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, macmillan
Kindle (Free)
Social Standing
Which media brands are getting a lift from Tweeters and bloggers right now -- and which are getting panned?
Show Me: