Simon & Schuster Ebook Deal with Amazon Closes a Chapter

Under terms of the S&S-Amazon deal, the publisher gets back the right to set the prices on its e-books - a privilege that it has not had since 2010, when the Justice Department claimed that the big US publishers were guilty of collusion in setting e-book prices. Five big consumer publishers paid multimillion-dollar sums to settle the claims. Now the new deal restores S&S's right to set its own e-book prices. The formula for selling ink-on-paper books that Amazon carries for S&S will not change appreciably.