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Originally Posted by Superlucky
Publishers should be worried, but not because of Amazon's pricing. They should be worried because of what happened in the music industry. When music distribution became primarily digital, the artists fared much better, but the record companies started dying. When book distribution becomes primarily digital (as I think it will), it's the publishers who will suffer. The last thing they want is for authors to no longer need them, so of course they're complaining. IMO, this digital trend is good for both authors and consumers.
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Publishers should be worried because the majority of them are corrupt jackasses that screw both authors and customers every chance they get.
They shouldn't be worried about the feasibility of their general business model though. The publishing industry is not really analogous to the music industry. Publishers, despite everybody on this board knowing better, do actually do a lot of work that they are better suited to handle than anybody else... the author included. The same is increasingly less true of music labels.
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