The National Emergency Library is one of those well-intentioned ideas that was destined to get pushback. The brainchild of Internet Archive, the platform made north of 1.3 million books available for
Apple looks to have come to the end of the road in a long running legal saga involving allegations of an e-books price inflating conspiracy.
Merry pre-Christmas. The war is over. Amazon and the Hachette Book Group have agreed on a new, “multi-year” agreement for ebook and print sales. The agreement allows Hachette to set all pr
Andrew Wylie is a major book agent who many in the milquetoast publishing industry call the “jackal.” His fiery pronouncements are much-read in certain circles and his latest one, in a spe
By now everyone is well aware of the ongoing battle between Amazon and publisher Hachette. The thing is, we all know how this story ends, we just don’t know when it will be over. This one does not
I was ready to come to Amazon's defense (and I will, eventually). In their long letter to the writing community, they made some excellent points. They inflamed our passions, gave us historical context
Amazon is flexing another muscle in the ongoing Hachette dispute. In a letter obtained by the New York Times, David Naggar, VP of Kindle content, is offering 100 percent of all profits for some Hachet
Did you know that the book publishing industry is at war with itself? No, wait, you're a TechCrunch reader, wrong question. Did you know that the book publishing industry still exists?
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When we last left retail giant Amazon and publishing giant Hachette, the companies were at an impasse over contract negotiations, resulting in <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/24/amazon-keeps-f
Some development in the e-book price war being played out in Europe -- and an indirect victory for Amazon and any other retailer not called Apple in the process: the European Commission has <a target=
Apple was surely riding high after the announcement of their new iPad yesterday, but that doesn't mean that everything is OK in CA if a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203961204