Amazon Pulls Book Publisher's Listings; Ebook Wars Underway?

As of last night, Amazon stopped listing all books from Macmillan Publishers, referring searches to other sellers instead. According to the New York Times, this is because Macmillan is one of the companies that now has an agreement to sell ebooks through Apple's new iBooks store, and asked Amazon to raise the price of their ebooks from $9.99 to $15. An industry source told the Times that the de-listing is Amazon's way of "expressing its strong disagreement" with the idea of a price hike. Gizmodo suggests this is the first volley in an Apple-Amazon ebook war. Quoting: "It feels like a repeat of the same s*** Universal Music, and later, NBC Universal pulled with iTunes, trying to counter the leverage Apple had because of iTunes' insane marketshare. Same situation here, really: Content provider wants more money/control over their content, fights with the overwhelmingly dominant, embedded service that's selling the content. Last time, everybody compromised and walked away mostly happy: Universal and NBC got more flexible pricing, iTunes got DRM-free music and more TV shows for its catalog to sell. ... The difference in this fight is that Macmillan is one of the publishers signed to deliver books for Apple's iBooks store. They have somewhere to run. And credibly. That wasn't really the case with record labels, who tried to fuel alternatives to dilute iTunes power, and failed."

Yoda says

[Anonymous Coward]

begun the book wars have

Re:Good. Fuck 'em.

[jra]

Shame about you being so reserved with your opinions and all... hopefully, you'll get over that someday.

Re:Kindle v. iPad

[jonbryce]

What's this wife thing you talk about? Remember, you are posting on Slashdot.

Re:Good. Fuck 'em.

[Lehk228]

/b/torrent? What if i want to read something other than the lyrics of "Fresh Prince" or "Never Gonna Give You up"?

Re:Kindle v. iPad

[Anonymous Coward]

This let's me read in a relatively dim room without bothering my sleeping wife. It's a lot more pleasant than the hours of reading I do on an LCD every day.

Have you tried reading recreationally on an LCD tablet by candlelight while in bed with your sleeping wife?
I'm thinking you're failing to control all the variables in this little experiment.

No he doesn't

[Errol backfiring]

The Force of Amazon just deleted him.

Now wait just a minute!!!

[EEBaum]

People are paying $10 for an eBook???

Re:Kindle v. iPad

[falconwolf]

Obvious AND trivial math error. It's a 50% increase.

The error is yours. $10 X 1.50 = $15.

Troll

Falcon

Re:Kindle v. iPad

[whhyohwhyslashdot]

you sir, are a moron.

by your logic $10 X 1 = $10 so, not changing the price at all is considered a 100% Increase - brilliant!

Perhaps you should read more often, and maybe learn what the meaning of the word increase is.