Amazon pulls books over price dispute

The disappearance is the result of a disagreement between Amazon.com and book publishers that has been brewing for the last year. Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 to around $15. Amazon is expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books.  Macmillan is one of the publishers signed on to offer books to Apple at higher prices, as part of its new iBooks store. Its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martins Press and Henry Holt.  After a few days of tense negotiations the titles we're back on Amazon at prices that broke the $9.99 price point.  Let the great ebook war begin.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/amazon-pulls-macmillan-books-over-e-book-price-disagreement/
http://mashable.com/2010/01/30/amazon-macmillan/

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Books from Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the United States, vanished from Amazon.com earlier this week.

 
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