Another intersting article

 This is a article from Books on Board and it talks about how the prices of some books may go up in price starting in April.

Drastic eBook Price Change Coming Next Week

Last Chance to Get Discounted Prices on Many of our Titles

In an unexpected move, 5 of the industry’s top publishers have advised us in the last week that they are imposing a Required Ebook Pricing model on all ebook stores as of April 1. This is not an April Fool’s joke, but a significant price increase on many of our popular ebooks. In order to keep offering these titles, we are required to comply. These publishers are the following and all their imprints (full list agency pricing ebook imprints here):

• Hachette (publisher of Stephanie Meyer, David Baldacci, James Patterson and more),
• Penguin (publisher of Nora Roberts/JD Robb, Lora Leigh, Nalini Singh, the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris)
• Harper Collins (publisher of much Dennis Lehane, Christine Feehan, James Rollins, Johanna Lindsey, Diane Mott Davidson, Kerrelyn Sparks, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lisa Kleypas, Jodi Picoult, Jeaniene Frost, and Tony Hillerman)
• MacMillan (publisher of Lisa Scottoline, Governor Mitt Romney, Terry Goodkind and more)
• Simon & Schuster (publisher of Kresley Cole, Kathy Reichs, Sabrina Jeffries)

What does this mean?

Now is the time to buy for enormous savings that will go away everywhere on March 31

If you have titles you want to buy from these publishers, the 5 publishers require prices to go up everywhere next Wednesday – in many cases, almost doubling. Some might not even be available while the publishers and our wholesalers change their systems to accommodate the change. If you know you want to buy eBooks from these publishers, you may want to buy them right away so as to get enormous savings versus what you will pay starting next Wednesday night, March 31st.

Sales Tax to be Added in US states for these Publishers

US customers will be charged sales tax on the titles from these publishers where you have not been charged sales tax in the past. This will not be true of other publishers titles, still representing the largest portion of our catalog.

Most BooksOnBoard titles are NOT affected by this

About 70% of our titles will continue to be discounted with our every day good discounts and Rewards dollars. Top publishers who will continue to allow you to enjoy great discounts include Harlequin, Random House, Samhain, and more;

The 5 publishers titles will be at full eBook list price starting next Thursday in ALL eBook retail stores

About 30% of our titles – all the books from these 5 publishers – will be priced the same everywhere at the full eBook list price, which the publishers are now calling Required Ebook Pricing or REP pricing.

The Authors are NOT getting additional royalties for this change. Everything goes to the publishers
Popular Authors whose titles will continue to enjoy discounts for you include, by publisher: (publisher name can be found
Random House: John Grisham, Stieg Larsson (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Jenna Black, Dan Brown, some titles from Eloisa James, Sophie Kinsella, Danielle Steel, Mary Balogh, Alexander McCall Smith, Clive Cussler, Christopher Paolini, Jean M. Auel, Linda Howard, Sapphire (Precious);
Harlequin: Gena Showalter, Linda Goodnight, Jane Porter, Susan Wiggs, Sharon Kendrick, Some Maya Banks, Diana Palmer, Susan Mallery, and many more;
Samhain: Lorelei James, Jess Dee, Jayne Rylon, Vivian Arend, Vivi Andrews, and many more

Interesting article

January 29, 2010, 11:19 pm

Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement

By BRAD STONE

Update | 7:01 p.m. Amazon relents and is selling Macmillan books again.
Update | 2:39 p.m. Adding reporting from Motoko Rich, the Times reporter covering the publishing industry, on Macmillan’s side of the dispute.
As Venture Beat and other blogs have noticed Friday evening, books from Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the United States, have vanished from Amazon.com.
The question is why.
I’ve talked to a person in the industry with knowledge of the dispute who says the disappearance is the result of a disagreement between Amazon.com and book publishers that has been brewing for the last year. Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 to around $15. Amazon is expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books, said this person, who did not want to be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Macmillan is one of the publishers signed on to offer books to Apple, as part of its new iBooks store. Its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martins Press and Henry Holt. The publisher’s books can still be bought from third parties on the Amazon site.
Apple, as we’ve reported before, will allow publishers more leeway to set their own prices for e-books. It’s not clear yet if publishers can withhold books from Amazon while giving them to other parties like Apple. I’ve spoken to two antitrust lawyers who say it could raise legal issues.
Motoko Rich, my colleague, spoke with a person who had a direct conversation with a person at Macmillan familiar with the conversations with Amazon. Macmillan offered Amazon the opportunity to buy Kindle editions on the same “agency” model as it will sell e-books to Apple for the iPad. Under this model, the publisher sets the consumer book price and takes 70 percent of each sale, leaving 30 percent to the retailer. Macmillan said Amazon could continue to buy e-books under its current wholesale model, paying the publisher 50 percent of the hardcover list price while pricing the e-book at any level Amazon chooses, but that Macmillan would delay those e-book editions by seven months after hardcover release. Amazon’s removal of Macmillan titles on Friday appears to be a direct reaction to that.
Macmillan has not yet returned a request for comment. Amazon refused to comment.

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Stars: ****

I have read several books by Dee Henderson and this one was okay it wasn't as great as her other books and the ending left me hanging but considering this is the first in this series maybe the next book will be better.  I like the fact that this author isn't very preachy about God. I loved the characters well the main characters that is.  Basically this booik is about Rae Gabriella who moves to Justice Illinois to get her life straightened out and ends up working her first case as a private investigator investigating the death of women who apparently die in their sleep. There are two men who help Rae Nathan who is the sheriff and Bruce who used to be a cop but is now a PI.  Nathan used to go out with Rae and he is hoping that he can have a relationship with her again.  Overall this book is good could this book be better? Yes but for being the first book in the series it isn't bad.  I just hope that the next book in this series comes out soon.