For Google’s planned initiative to sell access to online (and browser-cached) versions of books starting later this year, the company tells the Wall Street Journal they reserve the right to discount ebook prices at their own expense, though publishers will set the list prices. Publishers have told us that the splits Google has been proposing for the direct sale of ebooks more or less mimics the 37/63 split for out-of-print books in the proposed settlement of the Google Book Search lawsuits. But the effort to enable sale through other online retailers that we described on Monday is positioned as requiring […]
