Brad is a little behind the times regarding price fixing by a publisher.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing</a><p>"In August 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that vertical price fixing by a manufacturer and its retailers, also known as retail price maintenance, is not a per se violation."<p>That ruling, of course, is precisely why MacMillan will be able to establish Amazon as an "Agency" with no control over what prices are presented to the customer, allowing MacMillan to "fix the price."