When I looked up the Kindle edition of the new JK Rowling book, The Casual Vacancy, I noticed a curious tag line that says:
"This price was set by the publisher."
Jeff
"This price was set by the publisher."
Jeff
I don't think this is related in any way to the DOJ lawsuit/settlement. It's been around for a while.
My guess is it goes back to the beginnings of Agency pricing as a little jab from Amazon but it's not something I've ever looked into.
The first mention of it on the Kindle boards was in June of 2011:http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx32PVRIXR2G3VV