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Originally Posted by Quoth
Sorry I left out, "the biggest".
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That's not going to happen.
That's Bertlesmann and they'll keep on buying up roadkill the world over to accumulate ever larger regional operations.
Amazon's goal is to become the most *profitable* publisher. And they're already there. They don't publish as many titles as the BPHs but what they publish *sells*. Look at the top seller list at Amazon and it is dominated by APub titles month after month. And their books keep on selling well past the three month launch window.
The way they got there was with finesse, not shoveling random stuff out like the BPHs. (The randy Penguin puts out 30,000-plus titles a year, in the US alone). They are the biggest publisher of translated international titles by inviting agents of local best sellers to big for APub translation contracts. They are now so big and so profitable that established authors come to them.
Adding more titles is adding chum so they're not likely to bid for S&S or any other vulnerable publisher out there.