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October 23, 2017

Monday News Snippet: ebook settlement credit

JaynePublishing NewsAgency pricing12 Comments

So I got this email sent to me last Friday. I wasn’t eligible for credits from any other ebook provider during the first round of credit distribution so never heard from anyone else but I’d assume buyers might get credits from whomever you originally did back then. I also had ... more >

March 8, 2017

Wednesday News: Harper Collins resists Canadian ebook settlement; Nancy Willard dies; “Alien Bounty Hunter;” and hilarious giraffe video

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / April the giraffe / Canada / comic book adaptations / Ebooks / Harper Collins / pregnancy / Vault Comics4 Comments

HarperCollins Vows to Fight Back in Canadian eBook Price-Fixing Case – So Harper Collins has decided that it does not want to join the Canadian ebook settlement that was negotiated in January with the Canadian Competition Bureau. The Bureau asserts that Harper Collins is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by not allowing retailers to ... more >

garter barbie
September 4, 2015

Friday News: ebook sales drop, female representation in tech already dropped, punctuation evolves, and Sociality Barbie rules

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / Barbie / Ebooks / gender / History / Instagram / parody / publishing / punctuation / Satire / technology18 Comments

E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contract – Is anyone surprised? Or rather, does anyone really think that publishers care? Given traditional publishing’s reliance on the hardcover, what, precisely, is the incentive to encourage higher ebook sales? In fact, the comment below about higher sales of paper books suggests a belief ... more >

August 10, 2015

Monday News: Book sales, copyright use and abuse, and summer reading competition for boys

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / audiobooks / Buck Rogers / copyright / dmca / Ebooks / hardcovers / intellectual property / public domain / publishing / reading competition2 Comments

Publishers’ Overall U.S. Books Sales Down 5.6% YTD But Downloaded Audio Booms, Up 33% YTD – AAP has collected information from more than 1200 publishers and reports that book sales in most categories are down. It may not be surprising to see ebook sales down in the wake of Agency Pricing’s ... more >

April 17, 2015

Friday News: Agency pricing returns with a vengeance, Etsy goes public, the trouble with Jon Ronson, and The Left Hand of Darkness radio play

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Easy / Ebooks / IPO / online speech / public shaming / publishing / radio play / SFF / Ursula Le Guin28 Comments

Best-Selling Ebook Prices Rise Before HarperCollins Restores Agency – And so it begins. Readers reported seeing higher prices for Harlequin ebooks in Wednesday’s news report on HC’s deal with Amazon, and now we have even more confirmation of rising prices in the form of the Digital Book World’s tracking of ... more >

peacock spider
February 20, 2015

Friday News: KU illegal in France, Marvel’s all-female A-force, diversity and screenwriting, and tricky animal sex

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / Comics / diversity / filmmaking / fixed book prices / France / gender / nature / screenwriting / subscription services9 Comments

Kindle Unlimited Ruled Illegal in France – So the French government has determined that Kindle Unlimited violates French laws that require publishers to set book prices. While KU is not the only program affected by this ruling, it’s certainly the largest, and perhaps the most likely to survive the ruling, ... more >

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