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Assuming that Amazon accounts for a hefty portion of HC's sales, the only way they'd stand any kind of chance at doing anything would be if they dropped DRM and sold Mobi's that customers could have automatically emailed to their Kindle's. Still wouldn't replace all sales one for one or anything, but...
It'd actually be interesting to see a major publisher try this.
It'd also be interesting to know what percentage of HC sales Amazon accounts for, both print and digital. I've seen it speculated in general that Amazon accounts for about 50% of all print sales and 65%-75% of all digital, but don't know if it's accurate. Nor have I seen numbers, hard or speculated, for a specific publisher.
I tried the new HC "store" when they first launched it and had some freebies. Very bad experience that they've hopefully improved. The old store they closed (where OverDrive was the distributor that supplied the books) when agency started was much better than the new store.
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