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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
But would it be a step back, truly? If all the publishers got together to create a single website then it would still be one-stop shopping.
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Wouldn't work for me; I shop from a number of tiny publishers.
"All publishers" aren't going to be welcomed at any one store. How big does a company have to be before it's considered to be a publisher? Is Konrath's collection of a dozen of his own titles big enough to count? Is Closed Circle books--three authors sharing web-and-store space to sell ebooks of their backlist--a publisher? And would the store allow erotic and extreme content that the PBHs currently won't produce? Comic books? Gaming books?
There could be a "Big 6 store;" there won't be an "all publishers ebook store." Among the other problems, the big 6 would want preferential treatment that they're not getting from current "all publisher" ebook stores like Kobo and Diesel.