HarperCollins Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The Steve Jobs email that has the DOJ's interest

by Steven Sande (May 16th, 2013)

TUAW has covered the US Department of Justice price-fixing case against Apple for the past several years. Now an email sent from former Apple CEO Steve Jobs to James Murdoch of News Corporation (parent company of HarperCollins publishers) is being interpreted by the DOJ as showing that Apple and ...

Reuters: Apple, Amazon e-book battle in EU nearing a conclusion

by Steven Sande (Nov 6th, 2012)

Source have told Reuters that EU regulators are going to accept an offer by Apple and four publishers to end antitrust investigations into their e-book pricing schemes. This result essentially cedes a victory to Amazon, which will be able to sell online books for less than its ...

Apple officially responds to DOJ's antitrust case

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 13th, 2012)

Apple has officially responded to the antitrust claim brought against the company by the US Department of Justice. In the claim the DOJ says that Apple worked with five major publishers to illegally fix eBook pricing. In response to the lawsuit Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told AllThingsD: The ...

Amazon caves to book publishers

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 1st, 2010)

Amazon has submitted to pressure from the major book publishers ahead of the iPad's Saturday launch. HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster will now, like Macmillan, be allowed to use an agency model that gives them control over their book's prices. "Our digital future is more assured today than it ...

More eBook trouble for Amazon

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2010)

Amazon has run into more trouble with its pricing -- after Macmillan and HarperCollins, a third company has pressured the online book retailer to raise prices on their Kindle eBooks. This time it's the Hachette Book Group, and their CEO in an internal memo says that the company will switch to an ...

HarperCollins pressuring Amazon to hike Kindle prices

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2010)

The iPad is still a few months away from actual release, but it already has publishers scrambling to be in the right place when the revolution comes. First, Amazon gave in to Macmillan's bid to raise prices on their own store, and now HarperCollins is putting the pressure on that same site to raise ...

Report: Harper Collins, Apple negotiating tablet deal

by Dave Caolo (Jan 19th, 2010)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that Apple is in talks with Harper Collins regarding ebooks for the new tablet. They suggest that the publisher will set the prices of the books with Apple taking a cut, in similar fashion to the 30/70 split currently in place for the App Store (but ...