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Originally Posted by wallcraft
What is driving the calendar for the new pricing is the Apple iBookstore. It will only have ebooks with the new pricing model. So if an existing ebook lists for $30 it won't be in the Apple store.
This entire ebook pricing scheme is from Apple. Macmillan has never had a clue about ebooks, but Apple hit them with a clue stick and they were so scared of Amazon that the Apple alternative looked good.
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Exactly wrong. Apple's terms to the publishers are an agency model: the publishers will set the price, and receive 70% of all sales. Apple has absolutely nothing to do with the prices being set.
The calendar for this was driven by nothing more than Amazon's contract with Macmillan being up for renewal, and Macmillan's own greed.