Amazon & Macmillan

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• posted: Jan 30th, 2010
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I went to bed knowing there was an issue after seeing it posted on Scalzi’s blog, and having a fan question where the WoT books went on Twitter. But, really, I thought it was a technical glitch with bad timing. I emailed someone at work an fyi and left it at that. This morning I woke up to this:

Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement

I’m going to second what Patrick said on Making Light:

Tor is part of Macmillan, but I have no more idea what’s actually going on than you do. And yes, I’m not thrilled with that fact.

And now I have a headache. Oof. So, I’ll leave you with this:

A Quick Note On eBook Pricing and Amazon Hijinx

Update: CEO John Sargent has issued a statement.

Tobias Buckell has an interesting post up on SFWA.

Update: Amazon Concedes on Electronic Book Pricing

And some great posts from Scazli and Westerfeld.

tagged: Amazon, ebooks, Macmillan, Tor Books

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