Thread: LA Times: Joe Konrath can't wait for his books to go out of print.
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Old 12-28-2010, 09:36 AM   #17
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If they are going to go Amazon exclusively, all I can say is I hope they fail bigger then they could ever imagine.
I can agree with this – not really for the formatting issues but more for the “out of the frying pan and into the fire” idea. It would be simply exchanging one gatekeeper for another – just one less organized and less focused.

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Also, how does going online only serve the physical bookstore shoppers and public library visitors?
This is the other reason I’m not a big fan of Amazon & Apple getting exclusive deals with authors. Both of these companies have shown themselves to not be library friendly (although I admit not being library friendly is in their best interests). If agency publishing disappears and the dominate form of reader is the Kindle or some iThing, what happens to public libraries?
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