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Originally Posted by hardcastle
Yet they still enable consumers to find books that would otherwise be out of print. Their business model was and still remains a laudable goal.
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Are you referring to buying used books in the Amazon Marketplace? I agree that as is, it is a wonderful website feature, and, guilty as charged, I've used it a lot.
But as you can use the Marketplace for used CDs and DVDs also, (as well as phones, gadgets, shower curtains, garden fences, etc.) I have trouble seeing their current Marketplace product as absolution for the destruction of the publishing (small m) marketplace. I recommend reading the whole article, especially as it pertains to what authors take home in terms of money.
Pirates often lecture hopeful musicians that they need to sing for their supper: tour, sell merchandise and tickets. Well, what exactly is an author supposed to do?