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Ok...I'll grant you I left open the interpretation that Amazon would go out of business or not be selling books at all.
Amazon is indeed going into the publishing business...and that, all by itself, isn't something the big six publishers are happy with. At this point they can't take their ball and go home because Amazon is so important to them for selling paper books.
However, Amazon being a publisher is just one more reason the big six have good reason to stop doing business with Amazon. I am assuming that the big six publishers have the vast majority of the books that folks want to buy. I think I'm fairly safe _at this point_ in saying so.
Amazon without the bix six is little different than Smashwords or Fictionwise. The more successful Amazon becomes in signing up the desirable authors, the quicker they hasten the day when publishers cut them off.
If "BestBooks.com" came into existence with all the content from the big six -- and was the sole place for that content on the web....it would devastate Amazon's marketshare overnight.
Amazon, of course, would still be selling electronics and everything else they do.
Lee
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