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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Selling more Kindles is a minor benefit. What Amazon wants is to sell you ebooks. It's why I was unsurprised when the Kindle app for various platforms arrived. The Kindle was priming the ebook pump.
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But it *is* a benefit. Plus Kindles have the options that most of the buyers need. But buyers also have other toys, so the next choice was no DRM or Kindle app. Did you notice that Amazon also sells iPads?
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Oh, really? Amazon is probably the single largest book retailer in the world. A significant part of any publisher's revenue will come from sales through Amazon. You don't simply decide to stop working with them. Depending upon who you are, you may not survive without them.
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So Amazon can decide to stop being a retailer for a publisher and effectively destroy them? How is it then that the Agency pricing was enforced if Amazon has that much power?
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
One interesting experiment along those lines is Carina Press, an eBook only imprint of Harlequin, the romance behemoth. Carina is "shared risk". To keep costs low, they [i]don't[/] offer advances, but give a higher than usual royalty. Most of the work of editing and production is done by freelance contractors, reducing overhead. And the carrot is that successful Carina releases might be picked up by Harlequin for print editions.
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How is that a way "keep costs low"? If the royalty is higher, then the cost is higher. Plus how many housewives have ereaders now and know about Carina Press? It doesn’t sound like people thought this thru.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I'm not tired of it because it's not something I read in the first place, and don't care how much is published. The question is when the audience for it will tire of it.
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But it takes up shelf space. Of course people are still buying these books, it's what they see when they go in a shop.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It's only extortion if you're forced to pay it. In this case, you aren't. Don't like the price? Don't buy. Whether having the book is important enough to you to pay the higher price is your decision.
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You are still not reading what people are quoting. Tompe was talking about Amazon extorting the publishers. I was saying that it isn't extortion.