Publishers Use New eBook Pricing Leverage to Strongarm Google

It’s now become clear that the three weeks since Apple’s iPad unveiling have been among the most pivotal for the publishing world in terms of eBooks. Apple’s 70%/30% pricing promise, and the entrance of a compelling competitor into the device market, gave Macmillan and others the balls to challenge Amazon’s stranglehold on publishers (though oddly, Amazon has come to seem less like a bully and more like a kid being picked on), and its $9.99