Maya Reynolds: Random House And The Agency Model
The bottom line is the Apple 5 publishers are willing to take less money under the agency model in order to control the list prices for e-books. They don’t want that $9.99 to become set in stone. Meanwhile, Mike Shatzkin has an interesting … When you put it like that, why wouldn’t they stick with Amazon and the wholesale model for e-books? Crain’s New York Business.com reported last Tuesday here that Random House’s 2009 revenue results were flat at “$2.3 billion, … …
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