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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

The best known anecdote concerns special treatment of a book by a powerful American political figure:

http://www.mhpbooks.com/why-does-ama...uglas-preston/

This isn't about Amazon pressuring the publisher.

Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

I also see content implications in Amazon's attempt to get all eBooks sold for $9.99 or less except for a small number of specialized titles. This favors content that can be quickly written as opposed to books requiring multiple years of research.

My understanding is that the $9.99 price primarily is for fiction.

And Amazon understands that you will sell proportionally more at a lower price, so that the revenue to the publisher, and thence to the author is increased.