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Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties Boing Boing

When I woke this morning at 5AM UK time, I discovered an in-box full of emails from people asking if I knew what was going on with Amazon. My books — and all books from Macmillan and its many divisions, including Tor, my publisher — had disappeared from the Amazon webstore in both physical and electronic editions.
The New York Times quotes an industry insider as saying that Amazon pulled these books in retaliation for a demand from Macmillan to raise the price of Kindle books from $10 to $..

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sivavaid: RT @jafurtado: Cory Doctorow: Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties http://bit.ly/bFlOcX 
30.01.2010 18.48

jafurtado: Cory Doctorow: Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties http://bit.ly/bFlOcX 
30.01.2010 18.19

billwolff: Amazon pulls Macmillan books over scrap re Macmillan request to raise Kindle versions $5: http://bit.ly/90IvUi (via @CapnMarko @swierczy). 
30.01.2010 16.41

publishingtalk: RT @doctorow: Amazon vs Macmillan: a war where readers and writers are civilian casualties http://tinyurl.com/yzyx8f6 
30.01.2010 18.22

kevinmarks: RT @doctorow: Amazon vs Macmillan: a war where readers and writers are civilian casualties http://tinyurl.com/yzyx8f6 
30.01.2010 10.29

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