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Originally Posted by oj829
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?
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I've already discussed my issues with Amazon in the very post you quoted, so that's not new news to me.
I was more discussing Amazon's push to get back catalogs of authors into a common marketplace, which the article discussed for several paragraphs. I feel that the modern commerce model requires not only access to recent but also semi-recent and older books. The older concept of "only the classics stay stocked" seems narrow-sighted; a book could bomb but then suddenly become relevant after a major political movement a decade later.
However, I will note that Amazon is not the only one capable of this. Anyone with a grasp of the internet could have predicted the increased availability that would follow. I only noted my support of Amazon's execution of the idea in a list of many reactions to a long and complex article detailing a long and complex situation.