Do I have this right or am i missing something?
Amazon have been choosing to price best seller ebooks at $9.99
Publishers are concerned that this devalues new releases.
They have told amazon this but due to amazons size have been unable to do anyhing.
Apple have entered teh market and offered publishers a better(for publisher) deal.
Publisher is trying to now push back at amazon and using the argument of fine if you wont oiffer a better contract we will just use ibooks/other stores.
Amazon says, fine if yiu want to play hardball and dont like the contract we offer then we wont sell your books. your choice!
Amazon removes this publishers books to try and force them to back down.
This then goes one of two ways I guess.
1, Macmillan back down amazon win.
2, Amazon back down book prices go up and publishers are happy.
3, no one backs down, amazon stop selling books
Now apart from being used by macmillan as leverage in negotioations what role do Apple have in this?