Thread: Price drop on HarperCollins ebooks on Amazon?
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Old 09-13-2012, 07:41 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by The Other Pilot View Post
The reason we're seeing a change in pricing of ebooks is because of a recent suit filed by the FTC against most of the big publishers for price fixing. They claimed to have the right to set the ebook price of a book rather than letting Amazon or some other retailer set it. They were joined by the lawyers of The Author's Guild in claiming that Amazon's pricing of Kindle books is bad for the industry. The judge scoffed at that idea in a preliminary ruling, saying that lower prices are good for customers.

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