What does Amazon want from Hachette? Pretty much everything.
Amazon and Hachette have been squaring off for months now, but with neither company saying much to the press, the details of their dispute have been difficult to discern. Nearly… Read more »
Amazon seeks a “dramatic shift” in terms with suppliers (like Hachette), unveils new small business-destroying phone
Amazon and Hachette have both been quiet about their months-long contract dispute, but on Tuesday—the day before Amazon unveiled its new smartphone, Steve Jobs-style—The Future Book’s Philip Jones published an illuminating… Read more »
Some people never learn: Johnson & Merians start a new company … Melville House UK
Last Friday, in an exclusive with Philip Jones, editor of the UK’s leading book-trade magazine, The Bookseller, Melville House founders Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson announced they’re starting another publishing… Read more »
In for a penny, out for a lot of pounds: Sony v. Amazon price war ends
The last few times I’ve been in London, it’s all everyone in the book biz there was talking about: the war between Sony and Amazon UK. People would bring it… Read more »