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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Amazon will almost certainly want all the writers they sign up to be Kindle exclusives, so the other ebook sellers won't be able to compete with those titles. If they are giving 40% royalties compared with the 15% that normal publishers give (which is what I read) they will attract writers with that.
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The question is, will they attract customers? And that's a far more complicatedc question, based on prices, yes, but also on quality. If they don't understand what a publisher's job really is, their books will suck, and nobody will buy a second one. If they have good editors and produce good books, they'll thrive.
Given that Amazon's entire business model is based on having as little human interaction as possible with both customers and vendors, I'm skeptical as to how successful they'll be at publishing.