No sooner do we report Apple to be engaged in tablet-related New York meetings with major US book publishers this week than a small and potentially related move by Amazon caught our eye.
Amazon has changed its Kindle book distribution deal, offering publishers 70 percent royalties (from June 30).
That’s the same deal offered by Apple to developers selling Apps via iTunes - which we recall is also the deal the company was reportedly offering book publishers.
Until now. Amazon has offered a 35 percent royalty to publishers and authors.
Competition’s clearly hotting up as Amazon prepares to protect its Kindle vision. For example, we’ve learned Amazon is
