Macmillan books return to Amazon!?!

After a long tug of war Amazon have given in to MacMillan on e-book and physical book sales

Full Story Here

The biggest issue for me is that in the digital world what possible justification is there for wanting to charge more than US$9.99 for an e-book?

No distribution costs, no printing costs and because of that far more profitable

It seems another case of corporate greed, not that Amazon are saints but at least they try to give consumers good deals.

Amazon's Kindle plus several other platforms provide a qualified e-book userbase. Sometimes I wonder whether anyone from MacMillan et al have even walked into a book store

Paul Carr wrote a great piece on this. I'll go find it

Here you go: NSFW: Hey, 1997 – Macmillan called, they want the Net Book Agreement back

I thought it was a good explanation. Finally got what the whole hubbub was about

Short version - the profit *is* in the printing

Meh, something has gotta give eventually

What do you mean?

Interesting.