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Arnaud Nourry, chief executive of French publishing group Hachette Livre, has risked reigniting the fraught terms struggle with Amazon after he told the Financial Times that publishers were "very hostile" to Amazon's pricing strategy for Kindle books.
Amazon.com prices new Kindle books at $9.99 (£6.14), a decision it took without consulting with publishers, and there are fears that the internet giant could impose a similar pricing strategy in Europe when the Kindle launches on the continent and in the UK later this year. Nourry is clearly preparing the groundwork for a larger fight. He warned that unilateral pricing by Google, Amazon and other e-book retailers such as Barnes & Noble could destroy publishers' profits and kill the lucrative trade in hardbacks.