FT.com / UK - Amazon retreats in e-book pricing wrangle - 0 views
-
Marco Cantamessa on 02 Feb 10When dealing with e-books, the reader is not everything, of course, since you need content too. The problem is that with digital goods there is a huge risk of commoditization and of consumers feeling entitled to "free" content ("marginal cost is nil, so why shouldn't I get it for free"?). This explains the reason publishers are pushing to retain control over pricing decisions instead of leaving it to distributors.