While I was busy enjoying the subtler UI details, AppleInsider noticed that last night’s iPad commercial debut showed what might be some of the pricing inside the new iBooks Store:
The commercial showed Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “True Compass: A Memoir” for $14.99, the novel “I, Alex Cross” by James Patterson for $12.99, and “Three [...]
So after all that pushing by publishers for the 70/30 split “agency model”, and bullying of Amazon into raising eBook best-seller prices to $14.99, the New York Times is now reporting that Apple may be allowed to discount the price of those same bestsellers to $9.99 — the original Amazon price.
Yeah, we’re confused too. Amazon [...]
It’s interesting that, since Steve Jobs announced during his iPad keynote that iBooks would be available for download from the App Store, recently there’s been some coverage of this as news — including that the iBooks books will be using Apple’s FairPlay DRM.
That iBooks won’t be built in like iPod, Music, or Movies apps, and [...]
When iTunes Music went DRM-free and “hits” jumped from $0.99 to $1.29 stories soon followed that the higher price point was leading to slower sales… and now that iBooks and publishers aim to increase eBook sales from $9.99 to up to $14.99, MediaMemo is telling them to “beware!”:
Warner Music Group (WMG) said this [...]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that publishers, McGraw-Hill Cos, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt K-12, Pearson Education, and Kaplan Inc., have signed with ScrollMotion to adapt their textbooks for Apple’s new iPad tablet.
Though Apple didn’t outline its strategy to target the educational sector with its iPad last week, people familiar with Apple’s thinking have [...]
Both Mcmillan and Amazon have issued statements about the story linked to previously, wherein they stopped selling Macmillan e-books after the publisher wanted to raise the price for best-sellers to an agency model $12.99 to $14.99 — which Apple had already agreed to for iBooks on the iPad.
Mcmillan’s CEO, John Sargent’s comments ran as a [...]
According to the NYT’s Bits blog, Amazon has pulled Macmillan e-books due to a dispute over pricing, with Amazon wanting to hold the line at $9.99 and Macmillan wanting to raise it to an Apple iPad iBooks-like $14.99.
Eerily similar to Apple and iTunes Music, where Steve Jobs resisted the music industries desire to raise [...]
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — Apple rolls out a new form of media, like say iBooks e-books, for their iTunes/iPod/iPhone/now iPad ecosystem, and it’s initially only available in the US.
No doubt the global-village defying mess that is international media licensing rights is at play here, as different publishers can own different [...]
As part of their iPad announcement today, Apple introduced a new app called iBooks (hey, there’s that old name!) which they said stands on the shoulders of Amazon to go a little further.
The initial GUI looks a lot like the iPhone ebook app Classics [iTunes link]. As rumored, $14.99 for a new “hardcover” book is [...]
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