Warner CEO sees e-book 'fracas' as helping music (3news) 9 Feb 2010

Amazon.com was pitted in a pricing dispute with publisher Macmillan last week over e-books made available on Amazon's Kindle e-book reader.

Warner CEO: E-book 'Fracas' Helping Music (CBS News) 9 Feb 2010

Warner Music CEO Sees Music Pricing Power After E-book 'fracas' Between Amazon, Publishers

Warner CEO sees e-book `fracas' as helping music (AP via Yahoo! News) 9 Feb 2010

The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent "fracas" over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.

Publishers win a bout in e-book price fight (The Malaysian Insider) 9 Feb 2010

FEB 9 – Could book publishers suddenly be in the position of telling Google what to do? With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content. Now, as publishers enter discussions with the web giant Google about ...

The Majority of You Aren't Interested in Paying More than $10 for an E-Book [What You Said] (Lifehacker) 8 Feb 2010

Last week we asked you how much you would pay for an e-book, and just shy of 10,000 votes later, it looks like most of you (70%) aren't interested in paying any more than $10 for an e-book. The basic...

A Free e-Book for Aspiring YouTube Stars (Salon.com) 8 Feb 2010

Kevin Nalty, better known in the online video world as Nalts, published the second edition of his free e-book “ How to Get Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent ” a few days ago.

Amazon’s relents on e-book pricing and resumes sales of Macmillan books (InternetRetailer.com) 8 Feb 2010

Amazon.com Inc.’s strategy of selling low-priced e-books to encourage sales of its Kindle e-book reader is in jeopardy as the world’s largest online retailer formally ceded ground to one publisher that demanded higher prices for the digital products and faced similar pressure from another.

Amazon puts out one e-book pricing fire as others flare up (Ars Technica) 8 Feb 2010

Just as it looked like Amazon was about to achieve an iTunes-style lock on the e-book marketplace, the impending arrival of Apple's iPad seems to have emboldened book publishers. After a pricing dispute caused all Macmillan titles to disappear off Amazon's virtual shelves , other publishers joined the pricing revolt , demanding greater flexibility in setting prices on their wares. According to ...

Amazon caves to allow publisher to set own e-book pricing (Geek.com) 8 Feb 2010

Amazon and Macmillan have been in a battle of wills over the last year that has culminated in the last couple of weeks. The crux of the issue seems to be over Amazon’s insistence that e-books for the Kindle be priced at a flat rate of $9.99. Macmillan would rather see e-book prices range from [...]

Publishers Short-Sighted in E-Book Price Fight (PC World via Yahoo! News) 7 Feb 2010

Another episode of As The E-Book Turns wrapped this week, with Amazon locked in a page-turning battle with the publishing industry. The plot twists are many, but here's a quick outline: Amazon wants to continue charging $10 for e-book versions of most new titles and bestsellers, but the industry's leading publishers think that price is too low.