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I agree with John Scalzi's writing on this topic. Neither Amazon nor Hachette are your friend. They are both businesses pursuing their own interests. If authors wish to price their work for $9.99 they already can, or even less...they already do.
Why should we care if Hachette wants to price their own products higher? Let people price as they will and let the market react accordingly.
Of course Amazon want's ebooks to be SOOOO much cheaper than physical books that nobody buys paper books any more. That will put all book stores out of business except online book stores where Amazon reigns.
Amazon touts paperbacks. Paperbacks aren't released at the same time as the hard back. Amazon equally doesn't want ebooks time windowed. Effectively, Amazon wants to put an end to hard back books. Which makes sense for Amazon. Who's not your friend. Not the authors friend. Neither are the publishers.
Authors have a choice to sell direct via Amazon or work with a publisher. Readers have plenty of choice to buy cheap ebooks if they don't want to put for new. Just like I never bought hard backs and waited for the cheaper paper back.
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