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Originally Posted by sirmaru
The best outcome: all authors publish only on Amazon and end up with a bigger take than from their old publishers. Then they do better and the consumers get lower price books.
The old publishers are an ancient custom. No one really needs them or the old buggy and horse shoe manufacturers.
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Not good for authors, readers, or Amazon.
(Look to Microsoft for a precedent.)
Not going go happen, either.
Worst case scenario would be an 80/20 market split between Amazon and Apple, which is plenty bad anyway.