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Dopedangel · 03-02-2018, 10:31 PM

Well if Amazon buys a big 5 publisher I expect a larger number of back titles to come out as ebooks. Personally that's the only reason I feel Amazon would want to buy a publisher to get rights to popular titles and series. Otherwise self publishing and publishing through its own imprints satisfies most of its need to defang the big five.

03-02-2018, 10:31 PM	#20
Dopedangel Wizard Posts: 1,795 Karma: 30548723 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Singapore Device: Boyue	Well if Amazon buys a big 5 publisher I expect a larger number of back titles to come out as ebooks. Personally that's the only reason I feel Amazon would want to buy a publisher to get rights to popular titles and series. Otherwise self publishing and publishing through its own imprints satisfies most of its need to defang the big five.