Archive for January, 2010

Amazon.com to sell Macmillan e-books

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Amazon.com proclaimed that it will enter into an agreement with Macmillan to sell electronic versions of its books even at prices it considers too high. The retailer had pulled Macmillan books Saturday, including e-books for Amazon’s …

Amazon.com pulls titles from Macmillan US over new e-book terms …

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Macmillan has set out new terms for the sale of e-books in the US, which has resulted in Amazon.com removing from direct sale all physical books and Kindle editons published by Macmillan .

Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight – Charlie's Diary

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Last Friday, Amazon.com unilaterally pulled most or all of Macmillan’s books (edit: including all paper editions, not just electronic) from their online store. (You can still find them via afilliates or second-hand stores, but Amazon …

Amazon pulled Macmillan titles due to price conflict — confirmed …

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Amazon’s hardball response was to pull all of Macmillan’s titles from its Kindle site and Amazon.com by the time Sargent arrived back in New York. Macmillan claims that its new model is meant to keep retailers, publishers, …

Amazon Yanks Macmillan Books In Dispute Over E-Book Prices – Tech …

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

The New York Times notes that books from Macmillan , one of the largest US publishers, have been removed from Amazon.com (AMZN). The post says that Amazon made the move in a disagreement over pricing

Sargent: New E-Book Terms Behind Amazon Pulling Titles – 2010-01 …

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Amazon pulled Macmillan’s e-books and print books from its sites after Macmillan CEO John Sargent presented new terms of sale for e-books to the e-tailer. Under the new terms, Macmillan will sell e-books through an agency model which gives the publisher more control over …

Publisher Macmillan's books are pulled from Amazon.com over e-book …

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

NEW YORK — New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com , a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices. …

Tech-Ex: Amazon.com Pulls Macmillan Books From Its Site

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

In the wake of Apple’s announcement of the iPad, comes the first salvo in what is probably going to be a drawn out battle.

Macmillan books gone from Amazon.com, Steve Jobs grins wryly from …

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

We hate to iPad-ify the news so bluntly (matching lower back tattoos aside), but the timing of this one is uncanny. Mere days after Apple’s.

Amazon Halts Sales of Macmillan Titles – 2010-01-30 14:46:00 …

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The New York Times has reported that online book retailer Amazon.com has removed the buy button from all active Macmillan titles on its site in a dispute over the pricing of e-books for the Kindle.