Most recently, Amazon.com was involved in a dispute with publisher Macmillan over Amazon’s strict $9.99 pricing of new releases. Macmillan demanded a $14.99 price tag for all of its new releases. Amazon balked at the suggestion, …
Which brings me at last to a recent tempest in a teapot between Amazon.com and the Macmillan publishing group, which owns the publisher of most of my fiction, TOR. It was all a dispute over the pricing of electronic books for the Kindle …
January 28: According to the Times, MacMillan CEO John Sargent flies to Amazon.com headquarters in Seattle “to explain the pricing and new sales model to Amazon. He said Amazon could continue to buy e-books on the same terms it does now …
Amazon.com Pulls Macmillan Books From Site In E-Book Price Dispute. NEW YORK — New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com ,. …
Macmillan is demanding the site raise the price of ebooks to $15, a $5 increase over the current $9.99 price. Macmillan told Amazon they could purchase ebooks using the same model being offered to Apple, where Macmillan would get…
The fracas started with Amazon.com Inc. removing all (well, all that it could find) e-book titles published by Macmillan from Amazon’s Web site and its Kindle e-reader site, Macmillan said on Jan. 30.
Many new e-books cost $9.99 on the Kindle, compared with the $12.99 and $14.99 some book publishers seek. Last month, Amazon.com said it would cede some pricing control to Macmillan , a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH. …
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For a week, neither side gave in, and the “buy button” for MacMillan’s books was ineffectual on Amazon.com . On Feb
amazon.com goes digital: amazone digital world · digital Bids Blog Archiv The Amazon- Macmillan book saga %26hellip; The Amazon- Macmillan book saga heralds publishing’s progress. Washington Post Last weekend, a noisy little melodrama in …