![]() ![]() So they don’t have to be bound by Apple’s price restriction and “most favored nation” clause, but they don’t have to let anybody else mark the book down yet either. The reason for this, as PaidContent points out, is that the book is coming out in an important window: between the time publishers had to terminate their contract with Apple and the time they’re required to have entered into contracts that let other e-book stores discount their titles. That’s $1 more than the highest-allowed pre-DoJ settlement Apple iBookstore e-book price band of $16.99. The book, publisher-priced by Hachette at $35 and available in hardcover from Amazon for $20.90, will cost a whopping $17.99 in its e-book version, undiscounted, when it goes on sale tomorrow in the US. But as far as many e-book fans are concerned, it might as well. Rowling is not going to repeat her Harry Potter mistake and keep the electronic version sequestered away for years. With her new book, The Casual Vacancy, J.K. At $17.99, The Casual Vacancy eBook Not a Casual Purchase ![]()
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