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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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?
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Easy. They are a high volume retailer, with the infrastructure in place to sell and deliver electronic books. That same infrastructure allows them to offer services whereby people can get their book published, but "published" in this case means "put into ebook and/or printed form, and offered for sale"
They have no interest in getting into the business of acquiring books and editing manuscripts to make them publishable. They'll happily provide the services for a fee to produce and sell an end product for you, but creating that end product and making it something publishable is on you.
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Dennis