Amazon has raised the white flag in the first skirmish over ebook pricing. The victors in this first round could be publisher Macmillan and rival ebook-reader maker Apple. After temporarily stopping ...

A delegation of state librarians met with Macmillan CEO John Sargent last week and the publisher reiterated their claims that new ebooks in the library are hurting their sales. Macmillan has concerns ...

Two months have passed since Macmillan Publishing began its restrictive embargo on ebooks, and the response by library advocates, by way of a public awareness campaign and efforts to influence state ...

“The reason we’re here is to listen and understand more deeply what your point of view is,” said John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers, at the outset of an unorthodox question-and-answer session ...

There are currently 342 potential borrowers waiting for 197 digital copies of Ronan Farrow’s investigative thriller Catch and Kill at the Los Angeles Public Library. “It’ll take months for that ebook ...

With Macmillan’s controversial embargo on new release library e-books set to begin in just two weeks, PW has learned that the King County (WA) Library System has decided it will no longer purchase ...

There was no meeting of the minds, but at least there was a meeting. Just days after Macmillan’s controversial two month embargo on new release e-books in public libraries went into effect, CEO John ...