Kindle in February – War Season
There are so many wars and potential wars going on it is overwhelming. February is turning out to be a crazy month for the Kindle and eReaders. The Fight for $9.99 The Fight for $9.99 continues – The authors gloating over Amazon backing down just realized that Amazon’s exact words were ‘we will have to back down’ and not ‘we have’ . Lots of Macmillan authors are still missing the Buy Now button at Amazon. Rupert Murdoch (whose News Corp. owns Harper Collins) also brought up $9.99 and the iPad and that Amazon would have to agree …

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During media megaconglomorate News Corp’s earnings call —which owns publisher HarperCollins—the Dark Lord Rupert Murdoch reveals, “We don’t like the Amazon model of $9.99….we think it really devalues books and hurts all the retailers of hardcover books.” Ruh roh. And here’s the deathblow: Murdoch says...
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