TKC 82 Steve Garfield

February 13th, 2010 admin

News – Item 1: Will Random House align with Amazon in the Great eBooks Price War? Bufo Calvin does some sleuthing on a Random House executive who worked for 18 months on the Kindle team, then returned to Random House.  RH’s Madeline McIntosh actually spoke out against the idea of publishers’ setting of retail eBook prices, so maybe there’s hope that the biggest of the Big Six publishers will break ranks with the Apple Five . MobileRead and  Gear Diary have more, including links to the Random House Twitter stream and F acebook page , …


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