Publishers Debate eBook Prices with Amazon; Amazon Customers Debate Publishers with Boycotts

As Macmillan and Amazon (AMZN) appear to face off over Amazon’s common $9.99 price for Kindle books, we took a look at publishing’s next opponent in the price wars: eBook readers.

As publishers and the monolithic bookseller debate this eBook price point, GalleyCat went to the Amazon discussion forums to find out what customers expect. We discovered that customers are still boycotting books priced more than $9.99–so far, 2,183 customers have tagged 3,302 books with the “9.99

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