Thread: Amazon gets exclusivity deal
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Old 07-22-2010, 03:38 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch View Post
Why would anyone think it's a good idea to limit themselves like that? While Kindle users are the vast majority of ebook users, there are others. Why say to someone who does not own a Kindle, "Sorry, I don't want to sell this book to you"? It makes no sense.
Do geo-restrictions make sense?
Do format windows?

These are backlist titles that go back decades; a two year exclusivity window in return for Amazon's help in establishing the new publishing house? Plenty of sense. Probably up-front cash, higher royalties, legal assistance for the lwsuits to come. Lots of reasons.

But in the end it's all the same; a better deal than going through the BPHs.
Don't forget, the new publishing imprint is not going away.
We're looking at an iceberg.
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