Have you guys been following the tousle between Amazon and MacMillan?
The one in which all of MacMillan's titles were removed from
availability on Amazon?
The release of the iPad has helped propel the re-vamping of the ebook
business model away from the traditional paper book deal in which a
bookseller can charge any price they'd like for a title. Now Amazon is
being forced into a more eBay-like model in which they get a
percentage of the sale, but the publisher controls the price.
Apparently Google is coming out with their own ebook reader and own
Google Editions store, so it remains to be seen what happens to book
prices then.
Here's an interesting discussion of it from a British source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/01/amazon-macmillan-ebooks-apple
Alicia
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