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Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books In Dispute Over E-Book Prices
4 Comments | Posted by Nick Schooler in iSlate
Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world, is put into spotlight once again as a lot of Amazon shoppers noticed last Friday that all Macmillan books where pulled out in its online bookshelves over a price dispute.
The Times reports that Macmillan proposed selling books for the Kindle under the same terms it will offer to Apple for the iPad. Under that model, the publisher sets the price, and revenue is split 70/30, with the larger share going to the publisher. Macmillan told Amazon it could keep buying e-books under the existing model – paying 50% of hardcover list price while pricing wherever it chooses – but that Macmillan would delay those editions by seven months after the hardcover release.
This action taken by Amazon gives Apple room to move in on their territory. Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, “Publishers are actually withholding their books from Amazon, because they’re not happy with them.” Mossberg asked about the price they’d seen demonstrated — $14.99 — versus Amazon’s $9.99 cost for some ebooks. “The prices will be the same,” Jobs said.
4 Comments for Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books In Dispute Over E-Book Prices
Duane Cook | January 31, 2010 at 4:33 am
lulzdude | January 31, 2010 at 5:48 am
I hope apple and the publishing companies burst into flames. First off books are ungodly priced and kill people who are students and secondly wtf, ebooks should be cheaper, they don’t cost anything to produce. Publishing companies and apples garbage make Bill Gates look like a saint.
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So, Steve, tell me again how spending $5.00 more per book and about #500.00 per reader (realistically) is better for me as a consumer? Yes, the price will be the same, if Amazon bends to it.
And tell me again why Macmillian needs $10.00 per book…seems to me they were saying not long ago, as book prices increased 5 fold, it was because of the increased price of paper.
Well, Steve, you are going the IBM route and missed it on this one. An eReader is NOT a mini-laptop. Over priced and overfeatured on something that is half-fish and half-fowl.