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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Are you suggesting that Baen's business model is more successful than Amazon's business model? If so, where is your data?
Dale
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Baen is a publishing house. Amazon is a distributor. The relative "success" of their models (measured in what? Dollars? Percent of market? Customer satisfaction & loyalty?) is not directly comparable; they're focused on different goals.
Amazon is expecting someone else to produce goods, and they mark them up & send 'em along to customers. Baen produces goods, and has decided to cut Amazon (and others like it) out of the loop.
Publishing houses don't have the option of modeling their businesses after Amazon. Nor after Fictionwise. They could model their website after either, but that's not the same at all.