I’ve spent too many days this summer visiting this page on Amazon’s Kindle store, waiting for the price of the latest book from Charles Stross to drop to $9.99 (as of the date of this post, it’s $11.99). Clearly, it’s not going to happen until the publisher feels it’s notched as many $12 purchases as [...]
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Penguin and Amazon settle pricing dispute, put books back up for sale on Kindle store
Although the terms haven’t been disclosed, Penguin’s CEO announced yesterday that his company and Amazon have reached an agreement on ebook pricing on the Kindle Store, and that the 150 or so books they’ve kept off the store for the past two months will soon be made available again. Since pretty much nobody buys a [...]
Is $14.99 too high for a new release?
There was some drama over the past few days between Amazon and Macmillan Publishers (see photo illustration above), perhaps spurred on by the whole Apple iPad announcement, concerning the pricing of Macmillan ebooks on the Amazon Kindle store. It all came to a close on Sunday evening, when Amazon announced that from now on it [...]
Hardcover vs ebook: why staggered release dates are a bad idea
By choosing to stagger release dates for Stephen King’s new novel Under the Dome, Scribner wasted an opportunity to reset ebook pricing expectations with consumers, and they’re wasting marketing dollars too.