[RayChuang88]

I’d like to see everyone agree on a single standard for e-book pricing for new “hardcover” books: US$13 for the first four months, then afterward US$10. That’s still cheaper than the US$17 to US$19 charged by Amazon.com and BN.com for new-release hardcover books.

[Recon Dad]

I like Rupert Murdoch, I like capitalists that build a huge companies like he has, but his statement;

made clear on Tuesday his displeasure with the low price Amazon.com Inc has set for electronic books.

From every meeting I've attended on “Price Fixing”, you could not tell someone what to sell your product for once you sold it to them.

Mr. Murdoch should just raise his price to Amazon.

[CARTOUCHE]

I received a Sony reader for Christmas and had no idea how much it costs to download a book. I have yet to do so. I have many used paperbacks from Amazon already. If Murdoch thinks I’ll be inclined to download at 24.95 he’s dreaming.

[Publius Valerius]

By the way, this one problem with Amazon making and selling its own Kindle—it can get pushed around by the book manufacturers like this because it has so much invested in the Kindle.

If Amazon didn’t have the Kindle, they would tell Murdoch to stick it. Without the Kindle, the book companies need Amazon too much; the Kindle shifted that balance of power.