Amazon’s Kindle Book Deal With HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster

Publishers HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have signed a deal with Amazon to provide ebooks for the Kindle. The arrangements will allow the publishers to choose prices for the ebooks and according to HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray have left his company’s “digital future [...]more assured today than it was two months ago.” [Electronista]


December 10, 2009
Gadgets

Books, And The iTunes Problem

Ransacked by the internet and teetering on the edge of the real ebook revolution, the publishing world is understandably afraid of what’s next. But their skittish plans to shoehorn digital books into the old publishing cycle are stupid. And doomed.