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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Right. The authors are thinking long term. Same goes for the publishers. If the publishers were run by MBA types fixated on quarterly earnings, instead of by English majors, they probably would love Amazon.
Of course, Amazon is also famous for long-term thinking.
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The authors in question are thinking long term...but with blinders permenantly welded on and surgically attatched so they never (at any point whatsoever) have to see the escalating rate of independant writers with day jobs carving into the pie nor consider the implications of that.
Hardly an intellectual enterprize.