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  Simon & Schuster Implements Agency Model In UK

  1757 readersSimon & Schuster has implemented the agency pricing model on its eBooks from retailers in the UK. This includes Amazon.co.uk, Apple, Waterstone’s and WH Smith. The Bookseller reports: “The publisher joins Hachette, HarperCollins and Penguin in...

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  iBooks update allows fully illustrated publishing

  2188 readersAccording to FutureBook: Apple’s latest version of its iBooks app, which allows e-books to have a pictorial layout similar to printed books and supports full page illustrations, has been hailed by one publisher as being “the beginning of a phenomenally exciting phase in picture book publishing”. The new version of the online store means all

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  Simon & Schuster UK joins agency model crowd

  1196 readersAccording to The Bookseller, S&S has implemented the agency model in the UK, joining Hachette, HarperCollins and Penguin. This leaves Macmillan and Canongate. The site says that these publishers have signed onto agency model pricing, but have not...

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  Apple & Four Publishers Reach eBook Settlement In Europe

  595 readersApple and four publishers have agreed to change their eBook pricing models in a move to settle an investigation in Europe. Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette Livre, and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, which owns Macmillan in Germany, have agreed to settle with the European Commission to shake allegations of eBook price fixing. Under the terms of the

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  EU opens ebooks investigation of Apple and five publishers

  1654 readers From The Inquirer Apple and five publishers will be investigated by the European Union (EU) over anti-competitive practices in the ebook market. The European Commission (EC) will investigate Apple, Hachette Livre, Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck, focusing on alleged illegal agreements restricting competition in the EU. The Commission is also examining the

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  UK retailer Waterstone’s re-lists Hachette e-book titles

  1091 readersThe UK bookseller Waterstone’s has started selling Hachette e-books again, The Bookseller reports. Waterstone’s had previously stopped selling them two months ago over uncertainty surrounding UK publishers’ switch to agency pricing terms. Waterstone’s is now on agency terms with HarperCollins and Hachette, but has yet to reach them with Penguin. Waterstones has stopped offering points

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  Justice Department sues Apple and major publishers over agency model, but rumors of a settlement could keep the agency model alive

  1025 readersIs it a good thing that Apple let's publishers set their own eBook prices, or does this model, called the agency model, lead to price fixing and higher prices for consumers? Or are both things true at the same time? The U.S. Justice Department today filed suit against Apple Inc. and major book publishers over the

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  Justice Dept. Investigating Apple & “Big Six” On eBook Pricing

  707 readersThe Justice Department may sue Apple, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Pearson, Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins Publishers, claiming collusion in eBook pricing. Reuters has more: “The suit brought on behalf of e-book customers, alleges Apple and the publishers colluded to shift e-book pricing from a wholesale method, where retailers pay for the product and charge what they like, to agency

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  New iBooks update opens door to fully illustrated publishing

  3123 readersApple's latest version of its iBooks app, which allows e-books to have a pictorial layout similar to printed books and supports full page illustrations, has been hailed by one publisher as being...

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  Amazon UK Switches to Agency Plan with 3 Publishers

  2465 readersAs mentioned here on Oct. 15, Amazon told its UK customers about its battles to avoid the 'Agency Plan' created by Apple with the larger publishers and that the latter would 'require' online booksellers to accept the plan to fix prices to be the same ...