Random House finally decided to adopt the agency model. It’s the last of the big six houses to switch from the wholesale model, but now that it uses the agency model all 17,000 Random House ebooks will be directly available through the iBookstore—which is good since the iPad2 made its debut on March 2. The agency model is “when the publisher sets the price and designates an … [Read more...] about This Week in Publishing
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Visit to HarperCollins
My interactive media class was held at HarperCollins today. I don't have the best photo of the building, but we were told to wait outside until 6:30 p.m. so as not to overwhelm security, and it was freezing. Below freezing, in fact, it was snowing, and we were waiting in a wind tunnel, longingly looking in at the cozy looking HarperCollins lobby. Our guest speaker was … [Read more...] about Visit to HarperCollins
