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Originally Posted by dadioflex
So... maybe we'll see books listed as "written by..." along with "edited by...".
There's plenty of precedent.
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I don't know if we'll see that, but I'd take bets now that there'll be some big writers who'll jump ship to exclusive deals and take along their favourite editors with them. Amazon wouldn't feel the extra percentage points on profits they might give away to lure writers and their editors, not like traditional publishers who have a razor thin profit margin in comparison. Amazon could offer the writer 45%, the editor 5% and still come out of the deal with plenty of profits after marketing and such (which they'd do through their own system).
Barring the absolute shitty-end of the stick we as consumers will no doubt have to hold, can anybody think of a reason why Amazon wouldn't go into business as a publisher, considering they have the paper (POD with createspace) and ebook infrastructure locked down already?