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Subject:    [CGUYS] Macmillan pulls books from amazon
From:       mike <xhavok () GMAIL ! COM>
Date:       2010-01-30 19:36:51
Message-ID: dc5a8721001301136r1c2470f3x95085b468de9e3c3 () mail ! gmail ! com
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/amazon-pulls-macmillan-books-over-e-book-price-disagreement/
The entirety of the article is below.

As Venture Beat
<http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/29/macmillan-amazon-ipad/>and other
blogs have noticed Friday evening, books from Macmillan, one of
the largest publishers in the United States, have vanished from Amazon.com.

The question is why.

I’ve talked to a person in the industry with knowledge of the dispute who
says the disappearance is the result of a disagreement between
Amazon.com<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/amazon_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>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, said this person, who did not want to
be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Macmillan is one of the publishers signed on to offer books to Apple, as
part of its new iBooks store. Its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
St. Martins Press and Henry Holt. The publisher’s books can still be bought
from third parties on the Amazon site.

Apple, as we’ve
reported<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21reader.html>before,
will allow publishers more leeway to set their own prices for
e-books. It’s not clear yet if publishers can withhold books from Amazon
while giving them to other parties like Apple. I’ve spoken to two antitrust
lawyers who say it could raise legal issues.

Macmillan has not yet returned a request for comment. Amazon refused to
comment.


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