{"id":268728,"date":"2010-02-02T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5462724"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:56:07","slug":"another-blow-in-the-great-amazonapple-publishing-war-harpercollins-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268728","title":{"rendered":"Another Blow in the Great Amazon\/Apple Publishing War: HarperCollins [Amazon]"},"content":{"rendered":"

During media megaconglomorate News Corp’s earnings call<\/a>—which owns publisher HarperCollins—the Dark Lord Rupert Murdoch reveals, “We don’t like the Amazon model of $9.99\u2026.we think it really devalues books and hurts all the retailers of hardcover books.” Ruh roh.<\/p>\n

<\/a>And here’s the deathblow: Murdoch says News Corp<\/a>‘s deal with Apple “does allow some flexibility and higher prices” and now Amazon’s willing to renegotiate.<\/p>\n

It seems brutally clear that every publisher is going to shift to the agency model: They set their own price for books, and whoever’s selling it takes a cut. Sure, they get less absolute dollars per book than selling it wholesale—say, selling it to Amazon for $15, who takes a $5 hit to sell it for $9.99—but they’re convinced it’ll preserve the value of books. I’m sure that’s exactly<\/em> what’s going to happen when ebook prices everywhere creep up by several dollars—people will totally think they’re worth more. [MediaMemo<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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During media megaconglomorate News Corp’s earnings call—which owns publisher HarperCollins—the Dark Lord Rupert Murdoch reveals, “We don’t like the Amazon model of $9.99\u2026.we think it really devalues books and hurts all the retailers of hardcover books.” Ruh roh. And here’s the deathblow: Murdoch says News Corp‘s deal with Apple “does allow some flexibility and higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}