Update: Larry Dignan has posted all of the background information on the situation over at ZDNet's Between the Lines. Apple's agency model and its iBookstore have upset the applecart at Amazon, who ...

HarperCollins and Hachette are the first major publishers to absolve the agency pricing model for the UK version of Amazon. The two literary giants have removed the text that appears under ebook ...

Hachette USA has followed Macmillan US in announcing a move to an 'agency model' for the sale of e-books. Chief executive David Young had signaled the shift a day ...

Hachette UK has said its switch to the agency model is a bid to create "a level playing field for large and small booksellers alike" and has said that switchover of clients will take place over a ...