NYT on the eBook Price Hike
Motoko Rich and Brad Stone of The New York Times, who are ever on the publishing beat, posted a story last night about various reactions to the coming rise in eBook prices (which we covered yesterday in reference to iPad, Google Editions, and the Amazon Macmillan standoff). The fallout from the last three weeks is that bestsellers and new releases are likely to go from $9.99 to more like $14.99–on Amazon, iBooks, and everywhere.
The thrust of the NYT story is that customers are pissed about the price increase–surprise! They’ve even got a quote from Wilma Sanders (that’s Wilma above), a 70-year-old retiree and Kindle user who says, “As far as I’m concerned, Amazon has committed to the $9.99
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