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Walking Backwards To A Net Book Agreement World?

Posted at 7:54AM Tuesday 09 Feb 2010

Some would suggest that the publishers have wrestled price control back from the discount chasm that was in danger of undermining the economics of publishing, others that the winners are the authors and some that Amazon merely backed out of a price war to win a fixed margin on all ebook sales. The reasoning will differ according to your allegiance, but what is clear is that the battle is far from over and the water has just got a whole lot muddier. As always we jump to applaud something new before we understand the real implications.

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