Many have wondered how Amazon would react to the biggest publishers’ efforts to challenge the etailer’s loss-leader price point for new releases in ebook form and move broadly to an agency model for selling ebooks, with Apple’s iBookstore but also broadly across accounts. And, as reported earlier, the speculation intensified after the WSJ played a video of Steve Jobs assuring Walt Mossberg that Amazon would need to sell ebooks at the same price as Apple because “publishers will actually withhold their [e]books from Amazon…because they are not happy with the price.” Sometime late Friday Amazon took the lead on withholding, […]
