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Originally Posted by Shack70
Bottom line is why pay Amazon or B&N a portion of the sales when you don't need them? Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead did it with the music industry, now it's being done on Pottermore with ebooks.
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I just don't see people willing to go to lots of different sites to find the books they want. First, they'd have to figure out which publisher carries the book, then go to that site, give yet another company your credit card info, and buy the book, and hope it's served in a manner that's easy for you to get it to your reader of choice. Obviously, it's working for Harry Potter, but I think that's kinda an exception. Even just increasing the number of sites to match the number of publishers, you're suddenly increasing the complexity. And god forbid if it went to the author level. The average person out there is lazy, if you make it too hard on them, they're going to stop reading, not jump through the hoops.