It looks like Amazon is starting to feel the pressure from the yet to be released Apple iPad. They have been pressuring publishers into accepting their prices for ebooks or suffer the consequences. It looks like Macmillan Publishing is the first one to pay the price.
After an negotiating session last week the CEO of Macmillan received an email saying that Amazon will no longer be selling any ebooks that are from Macmillan. It seems that it is not only ebooks but now it’s also their published books as well!
You can still get the books from third party stores that use Amazon but that means that if you are an Amazon Prime member (like I am) you won’t be able to get your books as quickly as you’d like. For me, this is a major downer. Especially since Tor publishing is one of my favorite publisher and they are under the Macmillan publishing arm.
I had mentioned in a previous post that I wasn’t sure what kind of ebook reader I would get, should I decided to get one. I think that my choices were just reduced by one. Based on this, I don’t think that I’ll be getting a Kindle. It is now between a Nook or a Sony ereader.
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