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Originally Posted by Horemheb
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.
They are not retailes now either.
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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Yeah, exactly. It's *really hard* to do this right, which is why competitors to Amazon are few and far between. And, leaving aside anti-trust issues, there are inevitably going to be all kinds of disagreements concerning which books get prominent placement - does each publisher get an equal share of the front page? If you recommend books based on someone's reading habits, do you have to recommend on book from each publisher?
And is it really a good idea to compete against your biggest customer?