Thread: Amazon setting itself up to lose
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Old 05-16-2011, 11:14 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by carld View Post
Searching for Harlequin turns up 5,852 results at the Kindle store. My guess is Harlequin is perfectly happy selling their books through Amazon.
They also sell direct, or so I've heard. Still, as Amazon selling "all books" makes it a convenient place to go to, even if you are just looking for Harlequin. A Big6.com type site would likewise have that "one place to go to".

The publishers can't do this now because Amazon would retaliate by refusing to sell the paper books....as they did for a day last time. That leverage is going away. There will come a point when the publishers no longer fear losing Amazon as a seller of their paper books. That is the day they could choose to sell ebooks directly with no intermediary.

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