On the Monday after the weekend when Amazon and Macmillan faced off in a dramatic
battle over eBook pricing, I turned to James McQuivey, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, for his perspective on who won, what the stakes are, and what might lie ahead.
Not exact matches
In the ongoing legal
battles involving Apple
over antitrust violations in an
ebook price fixing case, it seems the technology giant just can't catch a break.
With Amazon losing the
eBook price battle with one of the big publishers (Mcmillian Publishing Group with 350 companies operating in
over 80 countries), what implications will this have on the direction of the
eBook market?
They have found a way to temporarily counter the second, by forcing Amazon to
price eBooks no lower than $ 15, which is what the
battle with Macmillan was fought
over.
Amazon and publishing company Hachette remain in negotiations after a very public brawl
over ebook pricing, and Amazon's pulling out some down and dirty trick to win its
battle, including jacking up Hachette book
prices.