Many online stories today need to be taken with a grain of a salt, but the Business Insider story about Amazon and HarperCollins posted Tuesday is apparently meant seriously. An unidentified source whose perspective makes them connected to Amazon tells BI (in which Jeff Bezos is an investor), “The contract between ‘Big Five’ book publisher HarperCollins and Amazon is about to expire, and HarperCollins is refusing to sign an agreement with the new terms that Amazon is asking.” The source also threatens on the bookseller’s behalf: “If HarperCollins and Amazon don’t come to an agreement, no print or digital HarperCollins […]
