Online retailer Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) once again started selling new books from Macmillan Publishers on Friday.
Macmillan titles such as “Sarah’s Key,” by Tatiana de Rosnay, and “Plum Spooky,” by Janet Evanovich, were available in print version yesterday on Amazon.com’s Web site, though their digital editions weren’t.
Over the weekend, Amazon stopped selling books from publishing giant Macmillan. Amazon had sought to price new e-book titles at $9.99, but Macmillan insisted on selling them for as much as $14.99. Ultimately, though, Amazon said Macmillan has a “monopoly” on its titles, so the retailer would have to sell them at the higher price, saying it wants to offer them to Kindle owners.
Popular titles such as “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay were once again available in hardcover for $17.13.
Macmillan and other publishers are widely believed to have agreed to a similar structure for Apple’s iPad device, coming in March and expected to strongly challenge Amazon’s dominance of the growing digital market.