The good and bad news from the pricing war between Amazon and publishers
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For readers, there is one easy win to come from the current fight between Amazon and publishers over how to price and sell ebooks, and it is that at least one of the publishers demanding a change in terms has said that it will stop delaying ebook releases if it can practice variable pricing.
Young said the company would release e-books simultaneously under the new model--Hachette USA had been one of a number of US publishers to window new releases because of the price they were being offered for sale on Amazon.com's Kindle device.
The second bit of good news, although this ...
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