Daily Archives: 2 February 2010

Amazon vs. Macmillan

Macmillan – the big name publisher – insisted they want to set the prices for their Kindle releases, rather than Amazon.
Which is fine. Why shouldn’t they be able to set their own price?
Well, Amazon kinda didn’t see it that way. Generally books on Kindle are released at around $9.99, but Macmillan wanted to release new books at $14.99 – the same price as a hardback – on first release.
I can kind of see their point. Continue reading

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