A more rational, big-picture look at the "Amazon vs the BPHs" debates.
http://annerallen.blogspot.com/2012/...lly-dying.html
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Amazon isn’t a major publisher. Yes, it has a few imprints, but in publishing terms it’s a small press, albeit with its own very powerful marketing and distribution network. Yes, the Amazon imprint authors are best-sellers and make serious money – on Amazon. But where are the Amazon imprints in the NYT best-sellers list, or on the international best-sellers lists?
Comparing Amazon and the Big Six is comparing apples and oranges. Amazon is a hugely successful book-seller that is now dabbling in publishing. Amazon takes proven sellers on its own platform and repackages them and gives them heavy promo, skewing the market, to make them even better sellers.
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Hard to argue with the point that no, Amazon is *not* killing the BPHs.
And no, Amazon is *not* going to get anything vaguely ressembling a monopoly.
Maybe now we move past the "Amazon is a monster" FUD campaign?
Get rid of the boogeyman and take a clear look at what al the self-serving players on both sides are doing without givig anybody a blank check?