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So on my way to work yesterday, I was listening an interview with a publishing rep about the new iPad. He was saying they were absolutely thrilled with it, because Steve Jobs had made promises with 5 big publishing houses to allow them to charge more than the $9.99 that Amazon allows for Kindle downloads. He said that the $9.99 model was

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There's this:

Kindle Fantasies are Running -- But for now Amazon is Losing Its Shirt

And a rebuttal of sorts from a blog convo:

My own books are almost always available for less at etailer sites than Samhain’s site. I make 30% instead of 40 per copy sold on, say, Amazon, and my publisher gets a paltry 5% of list price for each sale. Yes, the publisher that put in all the hours and dollars for editing, marketing, cover art, ISBN numbers, etc-the publisher that invested the time and money to produce the book-makes 1/6th what I do on every book sold through Amazon. They earn 1/12th selling through Amazon compared to what they would earn on the same title sold through their own store. - From a conversation on DearAuthor.com about ebook pricing.

And USA Today also had an articlePost on how withholding ebooks flows into the pricing controversy: http://www.idealog.com/blog/the-ebook-windowing-controversy-has-subtext... )

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One more for you from the PoV of an author:

http://www.sfwa.org/2010/01/why-my-books-are-no-longer-available-on-amazon-com/