Saturday, January 30, 2010

Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over Pricing Rift - NYTimes.com

Interesting times in the book business

A person in the industry with knowledge of the dispute, which has been brewing for a year, said Amazon was expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books. The person did not want to be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of e-books to around $15 from $9.99.

Macmillan is one of the publishers signed on to offer books to Apple, as part of its new iBookstore on the iPad tablet unveiled earlier this week.

Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over Pricing Rift - NYTimes.com

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