Is $14.99 too high for a new release?
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There was some drama over the past few days between Amazon and Macmillan Publishers (see photo illustration above), perhaps spurred on by the whole Apple iPad announcement, concerning the pricing of Macmillan ebooks on the Amazon Kindle store. It all came to a close on Sunday evening, when Amazon announced that from now on it will let Macmillan set the price of new releases and bestsellers in the $13-15 range.
Amazon posted a strongly worded announcement on its own forums to let customers know what went down, and to make it clear that it disagrees:
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