Self Published Authors

In case you all missed it, due a disagreement over a payment structure and pricing of electronic editions of books published by Macmillan and its imprints, Amazon.com pulled the listings for not only the Kindle editions but the print editions as well.

That is the very small nutshell version of what has become a very nasty dispute and debate. I found an article on the Laptop Magazine Blog which does a great job of explaining both sides of the issue.
See: http://blog.laptopmag.com/ebook-price-war

It would do all self-published authors well to watch how this goes down. I'm sure that by next week, this dispute will be resolved, to the benefit of both companies. But my takeaway here is that eBooks are becoming a very hot commodity and pricing them in a sweet spot, for retailers, publishers, self-publishers, and all authors, is going to be a trickier proposition then originally expected.

~Dan