Average Ebook Best-Seller Price Drops as Hachette and Simon & Schuster Ink New Retail Deals

December 10, 2012

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New deals signed last week between Hachette and Simon & Schuster and their ebook retail partners have driven down prices of ebook best-sellers.

This week, both Hachette and Simon & Schuster inked new retail contracts with Amazon and their other partners, giving up pricing control per a settlement both publishers signed with the Department of Justice over the issue of ebook price-fixing. The retailers have wasted no time discounting some of the publishers’ ebook titles....

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Source: Digital Book World

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	Simon Schuster		Michael Connelly		Eben Alexander
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