Amit Chowdhry | December 6, 2011 | 270 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple iBookstore, Apple Inc., European Commission, HarperCollins Publishers, Livre, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster, Steve Jobs, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck

The European Commission has launched an investigation into the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iBookstore. They are checking to see whether Apple and a group of international publishers are fixing e-book prices. They are checking to see if Apple and the book publishers are violating antitrust rules. The 5 publishers include Livre, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.

Amit Chowdhry | February 5, 2011 | 1,313 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Eliana Litos, HarperCollins Publishers

The New York Times is reporting a positive story about e-book sales. HarperCollins reported that 25% of all young-adult book sale were e-books. This is up from 6% a year earlier.

Amit Chowdhry | November 22, 2010 | 474 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Gawker, Gawker Media, HarperCollins Publishers, Sarah Palin

Gawker.com has taken down leaked excerpts from Sarah Palin’s unreleased and upcoming book “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag” from their website after being hit by a lawsuit by HarperCollins. The injunction prohibits Gawker from “continuing to distribute, publish or otherwise transmit pages from the book.” There is a hearing expected on November 30th as well. The blog post that had the leaked excerpt now leads to a 404 error message. [AllThingsD]
Amit Chowdhry | December 11, 2009 | 763 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Brian Murray, HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins Publishers has announced that they are delaying their ebook publications. The HarperCollins e-books will start in January or February 2010.
“We’re going to experiment with this. Each new e-book represents a potential new marketing opportunity at a time when we need every possible hook to get consumer attention” stated HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray.