Macmillan ceo John Sargent has commented on what happens next between the publisher and Amazon, a first answer to the what kind of timeline “ultimately” means for the restoration of buy buttons: “We are in discussions with Amazon on how best to resolve our differences. They are now, have been, and I suspect always will […]
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Plus the Macmillan Titles Amazon Kept Selling All Along
Before Amazon posted their announcement about their intention to give in to Macmillan’s new terms, we were working on this piece. Even when Amazon removed buy buttons from Macmillan’s trade division titles, they kept selling books from Macmillan’s Palgrave line. Primarily a scholarly publisher, in recent years Palgrave has also expanded its trade books. Not […]
Amazon: "ultimately, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms"
Could publishers have triumphed so quickly with their strategy to use Apple’s entry into the market to move to an agency model for selling ebooks? (Note that the etailer says “ultimately.” Immediately after posting this “announcement,” disabled Macmillan buy buttons had not been restored yet.) Early Sunday evening, The Amazon Kindle team has just posted […]
Macmillan Has No. 1 Bestseller–At BN.com
By Sunday afternoon Andrew Young’s just-released THE POLITICIAN from Thomas Dunne Books, a unit of Macmillan, rose to No. 1-bestseller status at Barnesandnoble.com. The book, which ranked as high as No. 4 at Amazon, has declined to No. 24 at the site–not surprising, since as a Macmillan title is not available for sale there. Another […]
To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent community
Editors’ note: This message ran as a paid advertisement in a special Saturday edition of Publishers Lunch To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent communityFrom: John Sargent This past Thursday I met with Amazon in Seattle. I gave them our proposal for new terms of sale for e books under the agency model which […]
The Battle Over the Agency Model Begins, As Amazon Pulls Macmillan Buy Buttons
As originally reported last night and many readers know by now, sometime yesterday evening the buy buttons for apparently all of Macmillan’s books–including bestsellers and top releases, and Kindle editions–were removed from Amazon’s site. Macmillan books remain listed but can be bought only through third-party Marketplace sellers, while Macmillan Kindle titles all lead to pages […]