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@timoreilly on DRM and ebooks: "People who don't pay you generally wouldn't have paid you anyway." so well said.

In the battle over the pricing of electronic books, publishers appear to have won the first round. The price of many new releases and best sellers is about to go up, to as much as $14.99 from $9.99.

“As far as I'm concerned, Amazon has committed to the $9.99 price,” said Wilma Sanders, in Florida with her friend Harold Roth.
But there may be an insurgency waiting to pounce: e-book buyers.

Over the last year, the most voracious readers of e-books have shown a reflexive hostility to prices higher than the $9.99 set by Amazon.com and other online retailers for popular titles. (via NY Times)

Is Apple already causing disruption in the ebook market? Less than a week after Apple announced its entry into the eBook market, Amazon has pulled MacMillan Books from its Kindle Store as the result of a dispute between the publisher and Amazon. Apparently, MacMillan wants Amazon to raise its prices from $9.99 to ~$15.00 which is what Apple will sell its books for. There has been a lot of speculation that Apple wooed print publishers with higher margins via distribution through the soon to be launched iTunes Book Store. (via NY Times)

While Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Sony struggle to meet the demand for their new e-Readers, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is riding high on what it calls “record” Kindle sales for the month of November. (via PaidContent)

With Amazon’s Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers. For some, that’s not small enough.

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Travis Bryant, with his daughter, Ivey, reading “The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril” on his iPhone at their home in Alabama.
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Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones that are already in their pockets — bringing a whole new meaning to “phone book.” And they like that they can save the $250 to $350 that they would otherwise spend on yet another gadget. (via NY Times)