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Amazon’s Hachette Job on Book Publishers

Amazon is putting the squeeze on publishers like Hachette Publishing, who won’t bend to their will, and customers are caught in the middle. If you want to buy books by Nichola Sparks, Malcolm Gladwell, James Patterson, J.K. Rowling, and any other author published by Hachette’s various labels, including Little, Brown and Company, Hyperion, and Grand Central Publishing, you may want to consider going to your neighborhood bookstore, and not Amazon.

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iPad Newspaper Service to Offer New Publishing Venue for Cash-strapped Newspapers

Apple is fixing to announce a new iPad news service through which newspaper publishers can publish their newspapers on the iPad as iPad newspapers. The newspapers will charge a subscription fee, of which Apple will take a cut. While currently iPad owners can read some newspapers on their iPad by going directly to the newspaper’s web portal or website, the new iPad news service will presumably allow your daily newspaper to be delivered directly to your iPad. We anticipate that this will look like a cross between the newspaper’s web offering, and an RSS feed.