Article on e-book pricing

[PennLady]

This is an article I just found on Salon.com about the "e-book price war." I haven't read it all myself but thought it might be interesting.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/everything_you_need_to_know_about_the_great_e_book_price_war/

 

[sr71plt]

Interesting article, but it doesn't have much to do with how most publishing erotica are doing business and setting their prices. This is mostly a mainstream publisher war over selling their mainstream books as e-books rather than (and as well as) print books.

 

[lovecraft68]

Just goes to show that even amongst obscenely wealthy corporations they are by far the sleaziest and seeing how the judge ruled apparently the ones putting the most money in his pocket.

Amazon has stones accusing anyone of trying to monopolize anything. The judge has no stones for not slapping them down.

But their arrogance will beat them where the law did not. All the millions of dollars they are losing with their "let's hide the dirty books" campaign is going to B&N SW Kobo and other sites.

Amazon's little game not only is costing them money, but handing it to their competitors.

It will happen gradually, but I have no doubt amazon is not going to be the major e-book seller for too much longer.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Just goes to show that even amongst obscenely wealthy corporations they are by far the sleaziest and seeing how the judge ruled apparently the ones putting the most money in his pocket.

Amazon has stones accusing anyone of trying to monopolize anything. The judge has no stones for not slapping them down.

But their arrogance will beat them where the law did not. All the millions of dollars they are losing with their "let's hide the dirty books" campaign is going to B&N SW Kobo and other sites.

Amazon's little game not only is costing them money, but handing it to their competitors.

It will happen gradually, but I have no doubt amazon is not going to be the major e-book seller for too much longer.

ELSiE? Don't sell Bezos short. He likely has something up his skirt we cant imagine at this time.