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Old 03-02-2011, 06:45 AM   #358
Horemheb
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Originally Posted by Visuddhi View Post
This is not the case with digital stuff- you just need some website/platform

What does amazon really do? Have a website that people can easily download or buy books.
No offense but this is an extremely naive notion about how this actually works. Business to customer (B2C) type of business is utterly different from business to business (B2B) type of business. Different CRM and billing processes different regulations to adhere to etc. There is no way a serious publisher wants the trouble of B2C.

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Why not? Computer makers were almost never retailers...
They are not retailes now either.

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if people can buy all their ebooks from somewhere else they will go there even if they can't buy a tv and a spare tire for their yacht
Exactly. Customers want to buy ALL books. Not just from one publisher. The chances that the wannabe retailer publisher will get contracts with other publishers is not too high. And this is an understatement.
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