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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Nice piece in Forbes:

Thanks for that!

....Bezos achieved initial success by bypassing the book retailers, And his ultimate vision is a world in which authors contract with Amazon to write e-books that readers digest on their Kindles.

And while that would make selected authors and readers better off — since popular authors would end up with more cash and readers would pay less to read their work – the vision Bezos is pushing causes a world of hurt for book marketers, manufacturers, agents, retailers and their suppliers......