Before Amazon posted their announcement about their intention to give in to Macmillan’s new terms, we were working on this piece. Even when Amazon removed buy buttons from Macmillan’s trade division titles, they kept selling books from Macmillan’s Palgrave line. Primarily a scholarly publisher, in recent years Palgrave has also expanded its trade books. Not only did the buy buttons stay active for the Palgrave trade titles, for those new releases with Kindle editions, Amazon was already selling the ebook versions for the “needlessly high” as they would put it price $15 in many cases. As we have written many […]