Amazon Set To Raise Price Of Ebooks After Macmillan Episode

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The publishing houses are keen not to emulate their music label counterparts who have been squeezed by iTunes. Apple was in a position whereby it could dictate its terms and the success of iTunes helped it convinced labels to play by its rules. In the publishing world, things are now rather different.

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