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Re: Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement

Amazon has already capitulated.  They posted a notice on their 
Web site, asserting that Macmillan thinks ebooks should not be 
inexpensive.  The "word" capitulate was used in the statement.

Amazon's statement is inflammatory.  No good will here.

I anticipate the following among the trade publishers, with 
academic publishers following close behind:

*Publishers will move to the so-called "agency" model, which is 
what Apple is using, in which the publisher, not the retailer, 
sets the price of the book

*Ebooks will continue to cost less than print, undermining 
physical bookstores

*The launch of Google Editions this spring will cause everybody 
to recalibrate the marketplace

*It looks like a 3-horse race for ebooks:  Amazon, Apple, and 
Google. I had thought that Barnes & Noble would be able to stake 
out a position, but now I am increasingly doubtful

*Decline and fall of the PDF

*Google's strategy is the most disruptive:  books read through a 
browser; no copying permitted; no "ownership"; all data stored at 
Google.  To quote my late Dad:  Yowza.

Joe Esposito

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:42 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>From the NY Times "BITS" blog:
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/amazon-pulls-macmillan-books-over-e-book-price-disagreement/
>
> Bernie Sloab