The WSJ reported lasted night that HarperCollins is negotiating terms with Apple for making ebooks available on the company’s forthcoming new device, along with unnamed other publishers. Which is correct, but is just a sliver of the story that is emerging, albeit changing all the time. Apple, whose representatives are in New York for meetings this week, is acknowledged by participants as currently negotiating with nearly all (and most likely all) of the six largest trade publishers, though those negotiations were supposed to be confidential. Multiple participants caution that negotiations are complex, far from complete, and may be hard to […]
