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Originally Posted by nomesque
I've been interested to realise that the big players in ebook reader production seem to have all decided the same thing - relying on traditional publishers for ebook content won't be good enough. Amazon, B&N, Sony... they're all taking up self-published ebooks in large quantities.
While this doesn't mean much without sales figures to look at, it's certainly an intriguing shift in retail attitudes, don't you think?
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I'm quite positive the real reason is to pad their numbers. The availability of products in eBook stores has been a major negative point for eBooks for a long time. Amazon touts 300,000 books or whatever, and you'll see a contest going back and forth, at least to investors at financial results meetings, to show who has the most choices available.
Even if that is the reason for picking up more on independent writers, I'm all for it. Both goals benefit everyone in my opinion. Such retail-driven promotion of content really helps independent artists, especially when you get into the whole "If you like this you'll like this also" recommendations systems that are automatically pulling up indie artists that someone has never heard of for music. I'd like that for books too.