(Editor’s Note: The following post originally appeared at Bufo Calvin’s I Love My Kindle blog and is reprinted here with his permission in a generous effort to help maintain my peace of mind during what I hope will be a brief absence due to my hip replacement surgery. –S.W.)
By Bufo Calvin
- Hachette Digital, Inc.: AL, AZ, CO, CT, DC, HI, ID, IN, KY, LA, ME, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NM, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI and WY
- Harper Collins Publishers, LLC: All states other than AK, AL, AZ, DE, HI, MT, NH, NV, OK, OR, SD, VT and WY
- Simon & Schuster Digital Sales, Inc.: All states other than AK, DE, MT, NH, and OR
- Macmillan: AZ, CO, CT, DC, HI, IN, KY, ME, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NM, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI and WY
On Amazon’s product page for the book, it will tell you which publisher set the price…if you live in a state in which that publisher has a presence, and if your state collects tax on e-books, you’ll pay the sales tax when you buy the book.
Those listed are four of the “Apple 5″. Penguin is not listed there because they have not yet reached an agreement with Amazon. It’s interesting to me that Workman and Perseus aren’t listed, although they have reportedly reached an agreement with Apple. They may just not have reached one with Amazon yet.
For more information on the “agency model” that is precipitating this, see this previous post.
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared on April 7, 2010 in the I Love My Kindle blog.