Thread: Charlie Stross: Publishers "Cutting their own throats"
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Old 11-30-2011, 02:52 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Their biggest problem is that the longer they wait to change their ways, the harder it'll be to adopt the most effective solution: disintermediate Amazon themselves. In other words: get into ebook retailing themselves.
Harlequin does it to good effect. If Amazon ever got too pushy, Harlequin has enough brand identity that they could easily do without Amazon and survive. For *them* cutting Amazon out of the loop is always an option and Amazon knows it.
Who wants to look at 2878 different publishers websites for their reading material?

As it is now ebook retailing is too fragmented especially for epub.
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