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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
All good points. If such a service existed and (eventually) got good traffic the motivation would be for authors to get 100% of the retail sale.
Another motivation would be the satisfaction associated with NOT being beholden to giant corporate monopoly.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
It does exist and for books or ebooks they are failures.
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As Quoth mentioned, @pittendrigh, here's the thing--those models and entities do exist--and the fact that you don't know about them should tell you everything that you need to know about it.
So, think logically--would you be unwilling to trade 30%, on any given sale, for the difference between 10,000 people a day shopping on your co-op, versus 100M people/day coming through Amazon?
Nobody in their right mind wouldn't pay for that sort of traffic.
Hitch