Rupert Murdoch sees weakness in Amazon following Macmillan deal, wants “room to maneuver”

The whole mess with Macmillan and Amazon seems likely to spread to others at this point, which ultimately sounds like it will be bad news for Kindle customers in the long run. Just to recap, Macmillan was upset because of the $9.99 pricing with Amazon, Amazon pulled their content, Amazon then later allowed them back in at the prices they wanted.

Now it seems that others are taking note of this and sensing some weakness in the whole $9.99 Amazon pricing deal. The latest is Rupert Murdoch and his Harper Collins and he has recently stated that he sees Amazon is now “willing to sit down” and “renegotiate.”

The important part here is nothing has changed, but that seems to come with a big ‘yet’ at the end because Murdoch also went on to state that the Apple deal “does allow some flexibility and higher prices.”

On a slightly positive note, he did continue on to say that the ebook pricing will remain lower than print editions. Seems to be a small concession.

The kicker here is that I love reading on my Kindle, but at the same time I do not want to pay more than $9.99 for a ebook, and I also do not want to have to start reading regular paper books again.

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