Thread: Amazon says 'will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms'
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Old 02-07-2010, 04:06 PM   #366
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Originally Posted by bossfan2000 View Post
I posted a rather angry rant about this on my blog just now, but here is an example of the "new" pricing of Tor books due to the ebook wars (quote from my rant):



Note also that Bones of the Dragon by Weiss and Hickman was 7.92 before the ebook war, and 14.97 after! Despite the mmp book being published 2 months ago, and the hardcover being in the bargain bin since May 2009.

How are we, as customers, supposed to be happy about the above? Or believe Macmillan actually will lower prices over time?

Great point. I agree completely. MacMillan is only in this for ROI for its shareholders, they could care less about customers or authors. And they certainly don't care about ebook, this is pure protectionism of their print business. The thing I'm hoping for is they will die out like the dinosaurs they are.
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