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These are exerpts (that I love) from the original article here.
"Bezos [Amazon] doesn’t love books (something his critics never fail to note, as if selling things designed to be sold is an atrocity) but his motivations are producing better outcomes than those of the dominant cartel. If we have to pick between two corporate strategies for making money, the one offering more access is better."
"The threat Amazon poses to our collective self-regard is the usual American one: The market is optimized for availability rather than respect. The surface argument is about price, but the deep argument is about prestige. If Amazon gets its way, saying, “I published a book” will generate no more cultural capital than saying “I spoke into a microphone.”
"The traditional industry belief — if you don’t live in a big city and have a lot of money, you deserve second-class access to books — is being challenged by a company trying to say “If you have ten bucks, there’s not a book in the world you can’t read.”
"They [Traditional Publishers] can drop DRM, sell ebooks directly to readers, add or improve their subscription services, offer print-on-demand—any strategy, really, except continuing to insist that readers must accept high prices and restricted access."
"...he is concerned that publishing will become too easy, that there will be no one who can stop the publication of ...books he and I and our fellow members of the highly educated class won’t approve of."
This Forbes article puts Hachette in second place and self-published books in third place as it lists the "Top Five Ebook Publishers in 2013." That success in self-publishing is encouraging for those that want to work from home as a Kindle ebooks publisher.
This ebooks publisher community provides step-by-step information for easy money on Amazon.
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"Things that feed my life, make it full. Focus on those people, experiences, and mindsets and live LARGE." ~lorrinda
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