Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham
In Nate's piece he mentions that Amazon have 25% of the US print market. The other 75% is hardly 'no competition'.
Graham
|
Correct.
There are literally thousands of indie bookstores out there.
There are several large regional chains with hundreds of stores each.
There are thousands each of newstands, drugstores, supermarkets, and department stores.
Rakuten/Buy.com sells pbooks online.
And B&N does both online and B&M.
And, nothing stops the publishers from selling books direct to consumers as they used to do before the corporate mergers of the 80's and 90's.
(I used to get regular newletters from ACE, Berkely, and Ballantine and buy mail order direct from them. On occasion, they even sold grab-bags of dozens of slow-selling books in blind bundles at nicely discounted prices; I discovered quite a few excellent b-list SF writers that way.)