Thread: Gollanz to launch world's biggest SFF library
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Old 07-22-2011, 11:01 PM   #24
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by elcreative View Post
Amazon is not a publisher!!! People can publish their work through Amazon but they are their own publisher, Amazon is a retailer. Gollancz/Orion is a publisher and the titles are all from their own back catalogue that they have either in print or previously had in print but currently unavailable... this kind of thing is what many people have been complaining that publishers don't do so now we have one doing it and what happens? It gets written off in relation to a retailer!!! If you want to use that argument then most SF & Fantasy collectors have bigger libraries but , just like Amazon, we're not publishers!!!
It doesn't matter whether Amazon is a publisher. And no one is complaining about this development. But the PR statement:

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...announces the launch of the world’s largest digital SFF library, the SF Gateway....
is just flat wrong.
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