Amazon vs. Macmillan-the dust settles for now

As stated in earlier posts, there was a major tidal wave in the publishing world over the weekend as Amazon and Macmillan duked it out over the price of e books, Amazon pulled Macmillan's books from its virtual shelves, and even sucked sample chapters off people's Kindles, however that's done, but Macmillan held its ground until Amazon backed down. And all this precipitated by the Apple iPad and Apple's agreement with five of the big six publishers to a system of pricing that allows them to ...