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How low can Amazon go? (Marjorie Kehe, December 11, 2009, CS Monitor)

When Amazon first started offering e-books at prices as low as $9.99, it seemed to many publishers and other booksellers that things couldn't get much worse. Then they did. Yesterday Amazon pushed prices on pre-orders of electronic versions of several big titles down to $7.99.