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The Battle Of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon, And The Big Six Publishers Changed The E-Book Business Overnight (2013)

by Andrew Richard Albanese(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Publishers Weekly

review 1: I heard bits and pieces of this story, but was interested in getting all the facts as I work in a publishing company. A very thorough account of why a civil antitrust lawsuit was filed against Apple and five of the big six publishers. The author also explains why the publishers wanted to move from a discount model to a commission model (on e-books), even though it meant less money in their pockets. As a consumer I love Amazon, but from a publishing point of view their power is quite scary.
review 2: A reporter for Publishers Weekly who covered the 2013 e-book price fixing trial, DoJ vs Apple, uses the submitted documents, e-mails, and testimony from that trial to tell the story of how Apple put together the iBookstore and switched e-book publishing from a w... moreholesale to an agency model. Clearly written and informative, a fascinating story is interested in e-book publishing or just business in general. I might have preferred the author attach companies to the names of people more frequently, but generally pretty readable. A less

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