Industry analysts seem certain the Amazon, Apple and Google online battle ‘will benefit authors’ in the e-book market. As the three tech giants invest heavily in their publishing platforms, the concern remains the terms offered to authors. There is no guarantee that the three corporations will treat authors any better than Uber treated its drivers or Spotify treats artists in the new publishing ‘gig economy.’ …
As the serialised platform Kindle Vella goes live in the US, analysis and speculation about how it will work go into overdrive. …
There’s little surprise that industry watchers declare the Penguin Random House-Simon and Schuster publishing merger means less competition for the work of traditional authors. The merger may not ultimately achieve the desired goals. …
Amazon and the ‘Big Five’ international publishers are named in a class action lawsuit accused of price-fixing. Law firm Hagens Berman filed in New York last Thursday, ten years after winning a similar case against Apple and the same publishers – Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster. …
