Thread: Amazon pulls MacMillan?
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Old 01-31-2010, 11:12 AM   #164
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It's been a while since I checked, but all the Macmillan-US publishers were pretty bad at releasing ebooks.
Holzbrink's (the kraken of which Macmillan-US is a tentacle) corporate approach to the rise of e-publishing seems to be "If we stick our fingers in our ears and hum real loud maybe it will go away."

Which makes me think that all the stuff John Sargent said in his open letter about sliding price scales and prices dropping over time is a steaming pile of bovine faeces and the real plan is "We control the vertical. We control the horizontal. We do not publish electronically. If we do deign to publish electronically, you will pay 15 dollars for an e-book long after the 7 dollar paperback has gone out of print and thank us for the privilege."
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