We understand from the Register that the writers' group Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America has cut links to Amazon. This move followed Amazon’s decision to remove some titles from MacMillan’s publishing. The fuzz is about the pricing of e-books which Amazon (trying to promote its Kindle) wants to set uniformly at $9.99 whereas Macmillan refuses to sell its latest titles for less than $15. Macmillan argues that it needs more flexibility in pricing and that it needs to charge that much to recoup its investment. Amazon has now apparently gone back and reinstated the titles in question or at least some of them but, like the Register stresses this is just a beginning and the whole [...]

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