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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
"So in a way this trend, if it should come to pass more broadly, will make it more feasible for smaller shops or totally independent authors to compete more evenly with larger publishers."
And that of course is the real fear of the big publishers. Much like the music industry the big players are used to a monopoly, and the brave new digital world scares the hell out of them. They are used of a business model in which that have complete control. I would like to see indies be the wave of the future. Better for the consumer, and the author.
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Genius! Except that it was MacMillan pushing for amazon to do this. Do you think that they also demanded that individuals NOT be offered the same deal? I wouldn't put it past them, but still... it was their requirement.
Actually if you wanted to take the iPhone App store as an example again, it seems that the very large companies are co-existing with successful indies rather well, at least in the gaming section which is the largest section. EA is topping the revenue charts week after week, but all the buzz is about indies, and they're both making serious dough with this channel for distribution.
Obviously, not everyone is striking it rich, but there are lots of little aggregation portals that serve as interest-specific views into the large world of the app store. I read toucharcade.com daily for games interests and they give a lot of lip service to the undiscovered quality indie games. The same kind of ecosystems could crop up around genres or subgenres for authors with iBookstore. In fact, I really hope it does.