{"id":7099,"date":"2010-01-31T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/macmillan-ceo-officially-confirms-amazon-deletions-were-due-to-price-war-ebooks\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:30:00","slug":"macmillan-ceo-officially-confirms-amazon-deletions-were-due-to-price-war-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/macmillan-ceo-officially-confirms-amazon-deletions-were-due-to-price-war-ebooks.php","title":{"rendered":"Macmillan CEO Officially Confirms Amazon Deletions Were Due to Price War [Ebooks]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The writing was on the wall as recently as <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5460203\/the-apple+amazon-ebook-war-begins-amazon-deletes-macmillan-books\">2 a.m. this morning<\/a>, and an open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent has confirmed everything we suspected: Macmillan books were pulled from Amazon store as part of a strong-arm tactic in the coming eBook price war. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersmarketplace.com\/lunch\/macmillan_30jan10.html\">Publishers Marketplace<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/01\/30\/macmillan-ceo-on-ama.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=bc8752d76d9c8ca44dd4ab54d71b5824&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9403a_img.phdo?s=bc8752d76d9c8ca44dd4ab54d71b5824&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9403a_eus.gif?eui=2226\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XTgZkMezY3E:6R0SOlwUuU4:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/70a2d_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XTgZkMezY3E:6R0SOlwUuU4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/70a2d_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XTgZkMezY3E:6R0SOlwUuU4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/70a2d_full?i=XTgZkMezY3E:6R0SOlwUuU4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XTgZkMezY3E:6R0SOlwUuU4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/70a2d_full?i=XTgZkMezY3E:6R0SOlwUuU4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c7eb8_XTgZkMezY3E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writing was on the wall as recently as 2 a.m. this morning, and an open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent has confirmed everything we suspected: Macmillan books were pulled from Amazon store as part of a strong-arm tactic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/macmillan-ceo-officially-confirms-amazon-deletions-were-due-to-price-war-ebooks.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}