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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
No, but I know that Amazon and Hatchette had one. I'm only guessing, but I suspect that both Amazon and Hatchette have tried to make changes in the new contract to which the other one objects, and neither one is willing to keep the old contract in place indefinitely.
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Not quite.
Amazon's Grandinetti publicly stated that the Hachette contract expired in March.
After Hachette refused to even answer attempts to renegotiate, Amazon kept providing services for two months as a courtesy. Come May, they stopped providing services which, instead of honest negotiation, brought the crapstorm media campaign.
More recently, I've heard a rumor that Hachette has no intention whatsoever to negotiate because they have been building their own ebookstore to try to sell watermarked ebooks directly to Kibdle customers. Unfortunately, the thing isn't working just yet...
But they are absolutely positively sure that is the magic silver bullet that will kill eee-Amazonvile and let them go back to the pre-Kindle days of $35 ebooks.