Amazon.com Inc has struck two new deals with major book publishers on the pricing of e-books The Wall Street Journal reports this week that CBS Corp’s Simon & Schuster and News Corp’s HarperCollins will set their own prices for e-books on Amazon.com Amazon versus Apple Selected new best sellers will be priced at $9.99 (£6.55), though most new e-books will be priced between $12.99 (£8.52) to $14.99 (£9.83). Most older e-books on Amazon.com from the two publishers will cost less than $9.99. It is a similar deal to that made by the two publishers with Apple for the iPad’s [...]

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