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Amazon offers publishers new 70% Kindle deal as Apple tablet threat looms

No sooner do we report Apple to be engaged in tablet-related New York meetings with major US book publishers this week than a small and potentially related move by Amazon caught our eye.

Amazon has changed its Kindle book distribution deal, offering publishers 70 percent royalties (from June 30).

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