Thread: UK Ebook startup calls on publishers to "do a Pottermore"
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Old 05-15-2012, 04:51 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
If they could do it at all. It's not *easy* to do what Amazon does; it's very hard. That's one reason there's not a lot of competition.

And look at Pottermore - they are only offering 7 books, but even so the website was delayed and delayed and delayed.
The " DRM free" bingo answer to this would be BAEN!
They offer DRM free books from their website, they offer multiple books, and they haven't gone out of business yet.
I'm saying it half tongue in cheek, because Random House doing it would be a whole nother league from what Baen is currently doing, but it is an example of a publisher also being its own online bookstore.
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