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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
No, actually Amazon would probably like ALL publishers in the program but most have opted for SCRIBD if they opted for a subscription model at all. I think one or two might be in Oyster.
There are a few small publishers in the program as well.
BUT for self-published authors they MUST be exclusive to Amazon in order to "qualify" to be in the program. That's the kicker for me. I don't want to be exclusive so no deal. I'm in SCRIBD and on other retailer sites and I'm not willing to give that up.
I doubt Amazon would try to negotiate exclusivity with a major publisher, but major publishers are not interested in driving yet more traffic to Amazon. They are feeling the pinch of Amazon's control already and would like to diversify as much as possible--thus they are on SCRIBD, a competitor and are starting to sell books from their own sites.
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There is a certain irony that when Amazon online music started up, the music companies allowed Amazon to sell non DRM mp3's while only allowing DRM on Apple because they thought that Amazon would be a good counter balance to Apple's iTune store. Off the top of my head, it took Apple about a year to negotiate non DRM music (Apple had been pushing for non DRM for a long time).