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blog.wired.com - 4/7/2009

Kindle Readers Rebel Over E-Book Prices

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What's the right price for an e-book? No more than $10, says a group of Amazon Kindle e-book owners -- and they have found a novel way to make themselves heard. Some 250 Kindle readers are using Amazon's own books tagging system to mark e-books priced more than $10 with the tag ' 9 ...

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Kindle owners stage e-book price protest
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