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As far as I know they're still in effect, those publishers have seen their ebook sales go down substantially, which is blamed on the enforced price increases du
by hga 11y ago
As far as I know they're still in effect, those publishers have seen their ebook sales go down substantially, which is blamed on the enforced price increases due to agency pricing.
And you'd otherwise see Amazon's return to its old scheme where normal ebooks never cost the consumer more than $9.99, whereas, to take a random example I just looked up, Jim Butcher's latest novel published half a year ago goes for $13.99, ~$1.50 more than the paperback and only ~$2.50 less than the hardback: http://www.amazon.com/Cinder-Spires-Aeronauts-Windlass/dp/0451466802/ http://www.amazon.com/Cinder-Spires-Aeronauts-Windlass/dp/04...
- mcphage 11y agoI'm not finding much in the way of settlement results (overshadowed by similar sounding, more recent news), but articles like this: http://goodereader.com/blog/commentary/agency-pricing-for-ebooks-returns-this-is-a-good-thing http://goodereader.com/blog/commentary/agency-pricing-for-eb... claim that the publishers were forced to abandon the agency model: "When the publishers all settled out of court they were forced to renegotiate their e-book distribution contracts with Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google and all of the other minor players." That article also says HarperCollins since returned to it, and this one: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/simon-schuster-strikes-amazon-deal-reviving-agency-ebook-pricing/ http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/simon-schuster-strikes-... says Simon Schuster returned to it as well. I'm not sure about the others.
- jonknee 11y agoDefinitely agency model pricing, it even says on the page "This price was set by the publisher".
- mcphage 11y agoRight, but the original contracts were voided, and the publishers have since gone back to the agency model on their own in the past few years.