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Originally Posted by sourcejedi
Sigh. You're crossing the line into quibbling for the fun of it  . I'm not attached to my definition of publisher, it's just that's how I write. If you want to define "publisher" differently, you'll need to re-interpret my writing by substituting a different word where you see "publisher".
Traditionally, a book has one publisher (at a time, per territory), but is sold by many different retailers. Amazon is a retailer. (Or retail outlet, or something).
You might be interested to see they've currently allowed Kobo, Aldiko, and Wattpad. No guarantee... but you're right, if they do it, it'd be great for competition. |
What if we said that a publisher was someone who helped another publish a book? Then we could create a publisher curve, little publishers who helped one person publish one book and big publishers who help infinite people publish infinite books. We could restrict helping to things such as editing, cover design, or simply uploading.
That is interesting about Kobo being allowed on the Amazon appstore, I had this idea in my head that Amazon wasn't going to allow third party reading apps on their tablet and now I don't have that idea in my head anymore and I can think of other things!
