Fresh off ofsettling a lawsuitthat impeach it of collusion with publishers , Apple is ready to take the money you were planning to give to Amazon but ca n’t . SinceAmazon is in a fight with Hachette — the cosmos ’s largest bookshop and one of the world ’s largest newspaper publisher respectively — and refuses to rent client pre - regulate any books from the publishing firm , Apple has stepped up to meet the void .
https://gizmodo.com/amazons-hit-list-which-books-are-screwed-and-by-how-m-1582628893
Amazon , which benefited from Apple ’s ebook pricing lawsuit , is now cohere in a fight over — surprisal — pricing with Hachette ; Amazon wants books to be cheaper , Hachette want to stay in business . The job is , Amazon can , has , and willplay dirty .
https://gizmodo.com/when-amazon-plays-dirty-you-lose-1580596374
Books from notable authors like JK Rowling and James Patterson are unavailable for pre - order on Amazon , which may not affect such pop authors too harshly , but for first time author like Edan Lepucki , whose novel California has been critically acclaim , not being uncommitted for pre - purchase order on Amazon could be severely detrimental to the sale of the book ( if it was n’t forStephen Colbert ) .
http://gawker.com/mad-prime-stephen-colbert-enlists-in-the-boycott-of-a-1586542246
While it wo n’t alleviate all the issues for the authors , Book from the three aforesaid names and many more Hachette source are on sale and useable for pre - order in iBooks . [ Recode ]
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