TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » John Sargent http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:19:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.4 Macmillan exec asks what publishers can do for readers, but does she mean it? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-exec-asks-what-publishers-can-do-for-readers-but-does-she-mean-it/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-exec-asks-what-publishers-can-do-for-readers-but-does-she-mean-it/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:46:19 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=114665 Porter Anderson at FutureBook reports on a presentation given by Sara Lloyd, Pan Macmillan’s digital and communications director, at the “FutureBook Hack” conference. (TeleRead previously carried an open letter to Ms. Lloyd from Brian Ford of Lendle.) Lloyd was gung-ho about wanting publishing to move forward with digital and take things to the next level. […]

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Macmillan Speaks…once http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/macmillan-speaksonce/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/macmillan-speaksonce/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:16:01 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=105929 I was clicking around links from my post about Steven Zacharius earlier today when I happened onto something amusing. Or, at least, amusing to me. Back in April of 2012, when John Sargent made his defiant post declaring Macmillan would not settle with the Department of Justice, he posted it via the Tor.com blog, with […]

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BREAKING: Macmillan Settles with DOJ on Price Fixing http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-settles-with-doj-over-price-fixing/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-settles-with-doj-over-price-fixing/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:30:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=78399 Apple is now the lone hold-out. As you may recall, three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster—immediately settled, leaving Penguin, MacMillan and Apple to fight it out in court. Penguin settled in December, probably to protect their pending merger with Random House. And now Macmillan joins its fellows. Macmillan CEO John Sargent cited financial reasons […]

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Macmillan Says Renegotiated E-Book Deals Allows Some Discounting http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-says-renegotiated-e-book-deals-allows-some-discounting/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-says-renegotiated-e-book-deals-allows-some-discounting/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:26:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=76023   Macmillan, the last of the major publishers still fighting the U.S. Justice Department over antitrust charges, says it has renegotiated its e-book deals with retailers to allow some discounting. In an open letter posted on his book-publishing company’s website Wednesday afternoon, Macmillan Chief Executive John Sargent said the firm is still committed to fighting […]

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John Sargent’s statement and Tor.com: A pet peeve http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/john-sargents-statement-and-tor-com-a-pet-peeve/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/john-sargents-statement-and-tor-com-a-pet-peeve/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:12:50 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/john-sargents-statement-and-tor-com-a-pet-peeve/ So, perhaps this isn’t really very news-related, but it’s a pet peeve that’s been bothering me for the last few days: John Sargent’s statement on the DoJ agency pricing lawsuit. I’m not bothered so much by what he’s saying in it (though I think his prefacing it with “Dear authors, illustrators, and agents,” without a […]

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Macmillan & Amazon make up lost royalties from agency spat; Macmillan raises e-book royalty rates across board http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-amazon-make-up-lost-royalties-from-agency-spat-macmillan-raises-e-book-royalty-rates-across-board/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-amazon-make-up-lost-royalties-from-agency-spat-macmillan-raises-e-book-royalty-rates-across-board/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:23:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-amazon-make-up-lost-royalties-from-agency-spat-macmillan-raises-e-book-royalty-rates-across-board/ It’s right around the one year anniversary of the week that Amazon removed Macmillan books’ buy buttons in its snit-fit over the implementation of agency pricing, resulting in a lot of authors losing a week’s worth of royalties. And just in time to mark the anniversary, an interesting tidbit of information pops up on eReads. […]

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The screw you ebook deal http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-screw-you-ebook-deal/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-screw-you-ebook-deal/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:25:47 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=45545 Every week it seems something new is happening in eBookland to set the ebook cause back a decade or two. Always at the forefront of the reversal of fortune is greed. This week’s menace to eBookland is literary agent Andrew Wylie and his new publishing venture Odyssey. Wylie could have summed up his actions in […]

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CEO of Macmillan is appalled at the Wylie deal; Random House disputes rights http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/ceo-of-macmillan-is-appalled-at-the-wylie-deal-random-house-disputes-rights/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/ceo-of-macmillan-is-appalled-at-the-wylie-deal-random-house-disputes-rights/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:50:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=45420 Macmillan CEO says of the Wylie deal, in his blog: I am appalled, however, that Andrew has chosen to give his list exclusively to a single retailer. A basic tenet of publishing is that our function is to reach as many readers as we can. We disseminate our books and the ideas within them as […]

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John Sargent answers questions about Macmillan agency pricing http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/john-sargent-answers-questions-about-macmillan-agency-pricing/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/john-sargent-answers-questions-about-macmillan-agency-pricing/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:19:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2010/03/12/john-sargent-answers-questions-about-macmillan-agency-pricing/ John Sargent of Macmillan has posted a new blog entry, in which he takes a look at four questions that cover the general gamut of the comments he received to his previous one. The first question Sargent addresses is how much an e-book should cost. He takes a look at several differing points of view—it […]

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Sargent compares libraries to Netflix: ‘How is that a good model for us?’ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sargent-compares-libraries-to-netflix-how-is-that-a-good-model-for-us/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/sargent-compares-libraries-to-netflix-how-is-that-a-good-model-for-us/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:59:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=39761 Macmillan’s CEO John Sargent attended the “Publishing Point” Meetup on Wednesday in NYC and spoke a little about the future of e-book lending, and the potential for publishers to create a new revenue stream from libraries. Eric Hellman attended the session and summarized Sargent’s argument on his blog: “[E-book distribution by libraries] is a very […]

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Blogs respond to Sargent’s pricing post; ‘a premium on impatience’ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/blogs-respond-to-sargents-pricing-post-a-premium-on-impatience/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/blogs-respond-to-sargents-pricing-post-a-premium-on-impatience/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2010/03/04/blogs-respond-to-sargents-pricing-post-a-premium-on-impatience/ I’ve found some good blog responses to John Sargent’s post about Macmillan’s agency pricing model, which we reprinted the other day. In his Kindle Nation Daily blog, Stephen Windwalker praises Sargent for at last addressing the general public rather than just the industry insiders at whom his earlier entries were pitched—even as he remains critical […]

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Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-ceo-john-sargent-on-the-agency-model-availability-and-price/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/macmillan-ceo-john-sargent-on-the-agency-model-availability-and-price/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:50:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=39235 Here is the complete text of Sargent’s post on the Macmillan blog: After the events of the past several weeks, I have been in touch with many of you. It has become clear to me that there is far too little accurate information available in this time of unprecedented change. The issues we all face […]

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