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Big Eight") - A wager placed on the Big Six (or Big Eight) area at any time which will win if a total of 6 (or 8) is thrown before a 7 appears and will lose if a 7 is thrown before a total of 6 (or 8) is thrown.
When it comes to e-books, the largest of the Big Six in early 2010 was Penguin, followed in descending order by Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, S&S, and Macmillan.
He explained that he had met with all of the Big Six the preceding week, and had come to the conclusion that the way forward would involve four components.
As previously described, Apple understood that the Publishers wanted to pressure Amazon to raise the $9.99 price point for e-books, that the Publishers were searching for ways to do that, and that they were willing to coordinate their efforts to achieve that goal.By December 15, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times articles of December 9 and 10 had described the windowing commitment made by three of the Big Six.
As Cue intended, each of the Publishers understood that this was a reference to the Big Six.
January 21-26: Execution of Agreements Even though Apple had told the Big Six in December that it needed all of them to sign on in order to open its e-bookstore, on January 21 it learned that Random House, the largest Publisher, would not sign an agency agreement.
Random House is the largest of the Big Six, followed, in descending order of size, by Penguin, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan.
Macmillan’s Sargent testified that he decided to sign the Agreement even though he was “not completely happy with some of Apple’s terms,” because it was a “much better business strategy than simply continuing the status quo with Amazon.” On January 22, Penguin’s Shanks had asked Cue whether Apple had “any more of the [B]ig [S]ix confirmed yet?” Even though three other Publishers had joined with Apple by the morning of January 25, a Monday, Penguin was still hesitant.
But, this left Cue with less than two months for Apple to acquire enough content to create a viable Apple e-bookstore, and that period included the Christmas and New Year holidays.13 As a result, Apple streamlined its efforts and concentrated on executing agreements with the Big Six Publishers for trade e-books.
Apple made it clear in these calls that it would be trying to meet with each of the Big Six CEOs on its whirlwind trip to New York City.Apple’s requests for meetings in New York was an exciting turn of events for the Publishers and prompted a flurry of telephone calls among them.