{"id":385,"date":"2010-01-26T21:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2010-01-26T21:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:36:36","slug":"wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-best-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/wsj-apple-wants-e-books-to-be-12-99-or-14-99-for-hardcover-best-sellers\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Apple wants e-books to be $12.99 or $14.99 for hardcover best sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/harper-collins-apple-rm-eng-1263860880.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-386\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"harper-collins-apple-rm-eng-1263860880\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/harper-collins-apple-rm-eng-1263860880.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a little price snippet on Apple&#8217;s e-book plans, care of an  eleventh hour <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> piece. According to the  article, the gang in Cupertino is asking book publishers (HarperCollins was specifically cited) to set the price point for digital versions of  hardcover bestsellers at either $12.99 or $14.00, &#8220;with fewer titles  offered at $9.99.&#8221; The publisher apparently has the option to set its  own price, but at any rate, Apple&#8217;s taking the usual 30% cut from each  sale &#8212; a $14.99 novel would thus leave about $10.49 for the publisher.  Nothing else to glean from this other than a rather strongly-phrased  assertion that tomorrow&#8217;s tablet has  a 10-inch touchscreen, but no indication on where that&#8217;s coming  from. These prices would put Apple&#8217;s selection at a premium compared  with Amazon and its Kindle store, but perhaps it&#8217;ll also be bypassing  any rumored digital  delay on new works &#8212; question is, if Apple really is entering the  e-book business and bringing with it higher prices, will it let us  import our digital books purchased from other stores?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_source.gif\" alt=\"source\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703906204575027503731077976.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond\"> The  Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little price snippet on Apple&#8217;s e-book plans, care of an eleventh hour Wall Street Journal piece. According to the article, the gang in Cupertino is asking book publishers (HarperCollins was specifically cited) to set the price point for digital versions of hardcover bestsellers at either $12.99 or $14.00, &#8220;with fewer titles offered at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,194,202],"tags":[627,371,372,373,374,115,375,376,377,378,53,379,380],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadget","category-handhelds","category-tablet","tag-apple","tag-book","tag-books","tag-digital-book","tag-digitalbook","tag-e-book","tag-e-books","tag-ebook","tag-harper-collins","tag-harpercollins","tag-rumor","tag-rumors","tag-wsj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}