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Originally Posted by stonetools
Again, I don't know that I would prefer any of this . But if Amazon can disrupt the traditional model, the publishers can play the disruption game too. They have the product: at some point, it makes good business sense for them to dis-intermediate the middleman, if the middleman grows too powerful.
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Authors have the product, publishers
are middlemen.
They have grown too powerful, and are being dis-intermediated as we speak.