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Originally Posted by sabredog
Very much so.
The Agency 6 have been seen to be all about profit. Amazon may not be perfect, but they do provide for indie publishing and for the customer.
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Are you saying that Amazon is a nonprofit company? Are you saying, aside from the fact that it has not made a profit, Amazon has no intention of ever making a profit? I suspect its shareholders would be distressed to learn that.
I guess I also do not understand why a publishing company should provide for indie publishing. Amazon as a retailer would be expected to provide for any form of publishing that would bring in revenue, but I miss where there is an obligation on the part of a publisher to provide for its competitors. Under that logic, Amazon should be providing for B&N and other booksellers.
As regards the customer. It has not been clearly settled sho actually is the customer. In Amazon's case, the consumer is the customer -- after all, that is the purpose of retail businesses, to purchase product at wholesale from a manufacturer and resell it at retail to the consumer. In the case of the BPHs, their customer has always been the retailer, not the consumer. That may be changing in today's Internet world, but even today, most, if not nearly all, of the sales the BPHs make are wholesale sales, not retail sales, so their customer is still the retailer, not the consumer.