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Originally Posted by HarryT
Since when has "sense" been necessary for the Amazon-bashers?  |
Harry, did you realize that, despite what was written in #377, Amazon is, among other things, a
conventional publisher? This is separate from Kindle Direct Publishing AKA self-publishing.
One thing Amazon does, as a publisher, is to purchase classic mystery/thriller rights. Three examples I know of are Ian Fleming, Ed McBain, and Gladys Mitchell. In the latter two cases, they only bought rights to the older works -- just the ones a new reader of that author would be liable to start with. Anyone with time on their hands may want to scroll down this list of Amazon-published authors to find famous names I have missed:
https://www.apub.com/authors
When Amazon buys rights, they do not buy them in every country. Random House owns the Ian Fleming's James Bond eBook rights for the UK, so you find them in some British libraries but none of ours.
As to how I know what was written in the last paragraph, I know it because I have a bunch of library cards, mostly for nearby Overdrive collections, but also for two competitors I don't think you have in the UK, those being 3M and Axis360. Since I have read about one library eBook a week for the past couple years, I am often doing searches for specific author/titles, and have found patterns.
A few years ago, one pattern was that you would never find a Simon & Schuster book. That changed. Now I usually do. And now the overwhelming pattern I see is that if Amazon publishes it, I don't find it. If the big five publish it, including Hachette, I mostly do. Nothing is really proved in discussions like this, but I wouldn't ignore evidence either.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
. . . these discussions would be a whole lot less acrimonious if posters would simple force themselves to say "good point" or "You may have a point" rather than be in attack dog mode all the time.
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Agree, despite not having followed the advice in this post
