So much for $9.99 eBooks...
The $9.99 Ebook Is Dead: Third Major Publisher Hachette Dumps on Amazon
Amazon's ebook pricing structure has crumbled. Hachette's the third major publisher to push for the agency model, following MacMillan and HarperCollins: They'll set the ebook prices (higher, natch) and the bookseller takes a cut. The $9.99 ebook? Poof.
It looks the pricing model reportedly first proposed by Apple to publishers—from $12.99 to $14.99 as a suggested price for hardcover bestsellers, though the publisher will set whatever price they want—is the way things are indeed going to shape up, so Steve Jobs wasn't idly riffing when he said the price difference between Kindle and iBooks would go away. MacMillan CEO John Sargent has specifically mentioned those same pricepoints as their baseline, so you can expect every other publisher will hew to that.
http://gizmodo.com/5464742/the-999-e...umps-on-amazon