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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 ...

Coming to an iBookstore near you: The authorized biography of Steve Jobs

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 16th, 2010)

Steve Jobs is an intensely private man. He values his privacy so much, he's had no qualms fighting the Times of London about a profile they wrote on him last summer. Four years earlier, Jobs played hardball with Wiley & Sons, the publisher of 'iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the ...