Actually I was tlaking about publishers, however I do understand Charlestan's point as frequently the two of them really go hand in hand. Actually harry you do bring up an interesting point: is Amazon a publisher or simply a retailer? The definition of a publisher that I have been using is that its a company that contracts with writers and constructs the ebook and printed book and sells to the retailers, who then sells to the consumer. The retailer is a middleman that a lot of us could do with out. However there are man ycases where amazon is simply a retailer and a middleman. So wether amazon is a retailer or a publisher is debatable.
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