Macmillan and Amazon Face Off: Reports From Around the Web

Last night the NY Times startled the publishing world with some news about Macmillan and Amazon (AMZN). Here is the paragraph that launched a thousand blog posts: “Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 to around $15. Amazon is expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books, said this person, who did not want to be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the matter.”