Amazon Stabs Penguin in the Throat With Ebook Pricing for Real Books
Amazon ? Not playing around with publishers when it comes to ebook deals . Penguin ’s contract run out on April 1 , so Amazon ca n’t betray their ebooks . So Amazon’scut the priceof Penguin ’s actual hardcovers to $ 9.99 ebook pricing . Which , one , show just how cutthroat Amazon will be on pricing — a lot of the $ 9.99 hardcovers are n’t even bestseller , so Amazon ’s flat out give away money — and how compulsive they are to move books in book and retain customers using price as a blunt - strength weapon system ....