“Content from Random House began populating the iBooks application on Wednesday,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“When the iBooks application launched last April, Random House was the most noteworthy absence from Apple’s new digital storefront,” Marsal reports. “Other major publishers, including HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster made their content available from day one.”
Marsal reports, “Random House’s content is able to be sold on the iBookstore now because the world’s largest publisher announced on Monday that it had adopted the ‘agency mode’ for e-book sales in the U.S. That model allows Random House to set consumer prices for e-books it publishes, and provides retailers with a commission for each sale.”
Read more in the full article here.
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It took Random House a year to figure out the iPad was a hit?
Hmmm
“The Random House web server is currently down for maintenance.’
And so the pre ipad2 stuff starts going live!