{"id":267229,"date":"2010-02-02T19:42:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/02\/rupert-murdoch-amazon-now-willing-to-renegotiate-e-book-prices\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:42:21","slug":"rupert-murdoch-amazon-now-%e2%80%98willing-to-renegotiate%e2%80%99-e-book-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267229","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch: Amazon now \u2018willing to renegotiate\u2019 e-book prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>You didn’t think the price hike would stop at Macmillan<\/a>, did you? In today’s News Corp. earnings call, chairman Rupert Murdoch gave indication that his HarperCollins<\/a> would also soon be changing its e-book prices with Amazon. As relayed by All Things D<\/em>, the mogul has been unhappy with the $9.99 tier, that Apple’s iBookstore<\/a> “does allow some flexibility and higher prices,” and here’s the kicker: “And now Amazon is willing to sit down with us again and renegotiate.” Nothing’s changed yet, but we gotta imagine it’s only a matter of time — not just with HarperCollins, but probably all “big six” publishers before too long.<\/p>\n

Rupert Murdoch: Amazon now ‘willing to renegotiate’ e-book prices<\/a> originally appeared on Engadget<\/a> on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You didn’t think the price hike would stop at Macmillan, did you? In today’s News Corp. earnings call, chairman Rupert Murdoch gave indication that his HarperCollins would also soon be changing its e-book prices with Amazon. As relayed by All Things D, the mogul has been unhappy with the $9.99 tier, that Apple’s iBookstore “does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}