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Archive for January, 2010

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We respond to Macmillan’s insistence that Amazon charge ridiculous prices for ebooks.

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Hey, John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Books, Screw You!

Using its large (pretty dominant) share of both eBooks sold and print books sold online, it has in the past dictated the terms. Amazon says it wants customers to not have to pay more than $9.99 per eBook. Obviously Macmillan has bucked …

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Why my books are no longer for sale via Amazon at Tobias Buckell …

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The e- book price war has begun.The New York Times notes that books from Macmillan, one of the largest US publishers, have been removed from Amazon.com (AMZN). The post says that Amazon made the move in a disagreement over pricing.

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Amazon Yanks Macmillan Books In Dispute Over E-Book Prices – Tech …

Israeli policy and global inaction are directly responsible for poverty in the Gaza strip, according to a new report from sixteen humanitarian and human rights groups. The report urges the EU to su…

If your reaction to From Poverty to Prosperity was “This is lightweight material. I was looking for something on the same topic, but much fuller and more scholarly,” then these books are self-recommending

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Two New Books, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and …

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Amazon has pulled books from publishing giant Macmillan, according to the New York Times. Authors — and book buyers — began to notice last night …

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Amazon is no longer selling Macmillan books; Macmillan CEO John …

We hate to iPad-ify the news so bluntly (matching lower back tattoos aside), but the timing of this one is uncanny. Mere days after Apple’s.

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Macmillan books gone from Amazon.com, Steve Jobs grins wryly from …