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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
That makes sense. A Publisher selling books in a way that encourages me to buy from them. Novel concept.
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I realize they couldn't do it in the old days because they'd be in direct competition with physical stores that they needed. People bought books they could see. These days, they could ship physical books OR ebooks and they don't need physical stores as much. Sure, they'd have to do something to keep the physical stores in the game and happy (Because they do still need them) but why aren't they pushing the idea more?
And as a writer, I'm glad they AREN'T. Because if they ever do, I'm in trouble. People will go to the top 3 that houses their favorite authors and only rarely browse elsewhere. For a while it would work that my books are on Amazon and B&N and so on, but talk about harder to get eyeballs!
It would be replicating what Amazon is doing--they are publishers taking it directly to the streets. They just did it the other way around--got the eyeballs first, lots of books and now they're going direct with publishing.