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Old 12-18-2014, 10:35 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by darryl View Post
Agreed. To actually spell things out, the problem for McMillan in Amazon having such a large share of the sales of their ebooks is that McMillan is not in a position to dictate terms to Amazon. It does not enjoy the essentially unfettered control of its ebook market that it has enjoyed with its print book market for so long. MacMillan does not have total control. It wants total control.
I suspect they do.
Towards regaining total control that they once had, I would evaluate sites like kickstarter and indie editors as a bigger long term impediment than Amazon.
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