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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
At what point do antitrust regulators start to object to consolidation like this?
(I'd argue the rise in non-big5 publishers that ebooks help enable might actually be beneficial to this merger's chances)
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And there is Amazon. Who will destroy everyone else. Their Audiobook system Audible is now a lending library that pays nothing to Authors. Did any regulators stop Amazon buying MobiPocket, various publishers, the two companies that they merged to make CreateSpace, IMDB, Goodreads, Abe Books, Book Depositary, an alternate eink display rights, KDP Select, Kindle Unlimited and Prime which are anticompetitive and cheat content providers?
The takeover / merger should go ahead.
The resulting outfit needs to wakeup!
- Cut out wholesalers, supply bookshops direct.
- Sell eBooks direct from their own website.
- Abandon DRM on ebooks.
- Use POD so NOTHING goes out of print.
- Have their own Audiobooks, sales and streaming from own site.
- Offer cassettes as well as Digital Audiobooks.
- Offer same price to bookshops as supermarkets.
- Keep different sizes in print via POD after print run.
- Launch some titles as POD and ebook only if unsure.
- Choose content on merit, not 3rd party snob literature reviewers or by some strange diversity criteria.
- Rely less on Agents.