Amazon Wrangles Publishers as iBookstore Grand Opening Looms

With an unwavering focus on Apple’s forthcoming iBookstore, Amazon reportedly has begun pressuring e-book publishers to sign three-year contracts that ensure that no competing retailers will get better prices or treatment. The new tactics come hard on the heels of Amazon’s clash with

Macmillan earlier that year by the publisher’s switch to an agency model, whereby retailers such as Amazon act as agents of the publisher and earn a 30 percent commission on publisher-set prices. Those prices, Amazon asserted, were “needlessly high.”

[Source] Katherine Noyes

windows media macs book computer macintosh computers nano speakers powermac g5 xbox anti virus software virus software