Even Macmillan ceo John Sargent wears a suit and tie to court, we discovered on Monday as the Federal government’s trial against Apple resumed. We also learned that Rupert Murdoch called HarperCollins ceo Brian Murray to complain about Amazon’s press release announcing their 70% royalty for KDP authors – “Rupert [who] is still pissed at Amazon…. He wants to screw Amazon,” Murray wrote – and Barnes & Noble “first brought to our attention…the term agency model,” according to Murray. (Sargent’s written interpretation of the KDP announcement was that Amazon was “going to use the same model [as agency] to chase […]
