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Originally Posted by leebase
Well...let’s see. Amazon directly threatened the business of the publishers by putting all of the best sellers on sale for $9.99 while still in the window where publishers were trying to sell the $25 hard backs. Why? To use the books as a loss leader to sell and establish the $400 Kindle ereader.
There was at least once where all the books of a given publisher were taken off Amazon.
Oh, but that was THEN.
Now Amazon is its own publisher. Amazon is a book seller so powerful that one CAN'T not do business with them....all while Amazon has set itself up as a direct competitor.
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Well, that was then. It's been some four years now.
I do think that the publishers are concerned about Amazon's power and market share. For the most part, Amazon isn't that sort of publisher. They are more of a passive publisher as far as I can tell. They provide the infrastructure for anyone who wants to take advantage of it and is willing to do the work.