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Old 12-24-2014, 08:59 AM   #147
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Ah, you were specifically referring to KU, not Amazon in general. Does KU threaten the traditional publishers any? And if it does, wasn't it mentioned that a business inflexible of change to the original business plan is doomed to fail? Since you strongly believe (my assumption on my part) that the traditional publishers won't go under no matter what Amazon does, we are all good here, right? Competition is a good thing.
Yep, competition is a good thing. It will be interesting to see if that business model works or not. I don't have a problem with Amazon doing that. Experimentation is good. On the other hand, I don't consider the big Publishers evil for resisting that business model.
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