E-Books and the Agency Model

[clarentine]

I don't know about you, but I was not particularly enlightened by the information flowing about most (I think?) of the nation's major publishers having switched to an "agency model" for pricing of e-books. (The kerfuffle started when Amazon decided to pressure publishing house MacMillan for not cooperating in Amazon's rights grab for e-books by terminating MacMillan books sold on its site such that you could buy them at the Amazon site, but not from Amazon, and escalated from there.)

I noticed today that Teresa Neilsen Hayden has explicated the "agency model" thing in words even I can understand, here at her and husband Patrick Neilsen Hayden's website, Making Light: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012168.html#012168

So now, if you were confused, too, you know where to go to make sense of it all.