Publishers line up against Amazon’s $9.99 e-books
February 5th, 2010
The ten-dollar e-book may soon be gone, replaced by the fifteen-dollar eBook. Last week, VentureBeat broke the news that Amazon had removed all Macmillan titles from its U.S. site and its Kindle downloads. You could look up the books, but you could only buy them from third party sellers, not from Amazon. The move turned out to be a reaction against Macmillan’s shift from a wholesale-retail relationship with Amazon to what the book industry calls an “agency model” for Macmillan’s e-books
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Publishers line up against Amazon’s $9.99 e-books