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While I find all of this entertaining and there are reasonable points made for and against both parties, there seems to be the prevailing theme that Amazon shouldn't be able to tell the publishers what price they want in THEIR store. Isn't that Amazon's right? To say, "Hey, Amazon is ours, and we won't accept an ebook priced over 9.99 except in special cases that we agree upon." When did the retailer lose the right to tell someone, "Nah, the price you're pitching is too high so I won't sell that in my store."? Aren't the publishers free to say, "Welp, you don't want our goods at our price, then we're moving on." and just go peddle their wares elsewhere."?
Perhaps I'm being to simplistic, but isn't that the long and short of it? Forget the press releases, rhetoric, and propaganda from BOTH businesses, when this is broken down to the very basic level, it is as simple as two sides exercising their right to influence supply and demand for the benefit of themselves. Each has as much right as the other. Hachette has a certain product, Amazon has the store distribution. Neither is technically wrong for making the demands that benefit themselves. As far as who gets hurt in the process or who has been getting hurt all the while, well, that's a different story.
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