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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I don't know. At $9.99 a month they'd be going up against Scribd & Oyster so they'd likely need to have contracts with at least a couple of the big 5 and then they'd have the added exclusives of Amazon Publishing's titles.
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Agreed. This will only work if they can get at least one or two big publishers on board. And they might even have to make it non-exclusive for indie titles as those exclusive ones have been available for prime for a few years now and that program has failed. The better selling indie books don't bother to go into prime/exclusive (at least not for long if they do it at all).
I think SCRIBD is doing a good job of showing it might work. It's early days yet, of course, but the concept COULD work. But they have to have the goods that people want and I'm not entirely convinced that the big publishers are going to hand over their new and popular books. The ones I saw listed early on this thread are older books.