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Old 01-04-2015, 01:39 AM   #157
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To a great extent hasn't that been Amazon's model since the beginning? They push a lot of the work of an ebook store (maintaining the catalog and publicity) back onto the publishers and authors.
Ah, no. Publicity is the publisher's job. And maintaining the catalog? What's that? At least in relation to an ebook store? ebook stores maintain their sales lists, but all of the information should be coming from the publisher.

And interesting that you contradict this two sentences later...

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Of course, to a great extent, the publicity and finding an audience is what a good publisher brings to the table.
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