Random House sets 40% bar for some titles.(Digital Royalties)

When Random House and the Wylie Agency released a joint statement last week stating that the two parties had "resolved their differences" regarding the 13 titles by Random House authors included in Odyssey Editions (Andrew Wylie's publishing venture to sell backlist digital editions of books by authors he represents directly through Amazon), the headlines immediately began touting which party had "won" and "lost" this particular battle. PW and the Times said Random House was the winner. The Wall Street Journal said Amazon, the exclusive retailer of Odyssey titles, was the big loser. But behind the story of winners and losers, what the culmination of the Random House/Wylie dispute …