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<\/a>Macmillan’s US CEO, John Sargent just confirmed that Amazon pulled its inventory of Macmillan <\/a>books in a powerful response to Macmillan’s new pricing demands. Macmillan offered the new pricing on Thursday, just a day after Apple announced Macmillan as a major publishing partner in its new iBookstore — a revelation that certainly factored into the discussions along with Skiff<\/a> and other e-Book distribution and publishing models. During the meeting with Amazon in Seattle, Sargent outlined what he calls an “agency model” that will go into effect in early March. Under the terms offered, if Amazon chose to stay with its existing terms of sale, then it would suffer “extensive and deep windowing of titles.” Amazon’s hardball response was to pull all of Macmillan’s titles from its Kindle site and Amazon.com by the time Sargent arrive back in New York. <\/p>\nMacmillan claims that its new model is meant to keep retailers, publishers, and authors profitable in the emerging electronic frontier while encouraging competition amongst new devices and new stores. Macmillan’s model gives retailers a 30% commission and sets the price for each book individually: digital editions of most adult trade books will be priced from $5.99 to $14.99 while first releases will “almost always” hit the electronic shelves day on date with the physical hardcover and priced between $12.99 and $14.99 — pricing that will be dynamic over time. So when Steve Jobs said that Apple’s and Amazon’s prices would be the same<\/a>, he was almost certainly referring to the $12.99 to $14.99 e-Book pricing originally rumored by the New York Times<\/a> — not the $9.99 price that Amazon customers have been enjoying so far. Funny how Jobs, the man who once refused to grant the labels’ request for variable pricing<\/a> on digital music so that Apple could maintain a low fixed $0.99 price per track, is suddenly the best friend of a new breed of content owners? Guess the old dog just learned a new trick, eh?<\/p>\n Amazon pulled Macmillan titles due to price conflict — confirmed<\/a> originally appeared on Engadget<\/a> on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Permalink<\/a> Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/h6>\n
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