Hachette Joins Macmillan In Rejecting $9.99 Baseline E-Book Pricing

Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group is joining fellow iPad launch publisher Macmillan in plans to demand higher prices for its e-books, the WSJ reports. While Macmillan’s titles in all formats were pulled from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) after said it would set its own prices—preferably in the $12.99-$14.99 range—instead of wholesaling them to Amazon, which generally sets many of its Kindle titles around $9.99. So far, Amazon...

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