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Originally Posted by JoeD
I'd expect the small print has a clause where Amazon only pay a % of kindle ebook purchases for X years.
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No small print about it: the press release makes it very clear that the revenue share option is a two year deal involving off the shelf standard Kindles.
The Waterstone's deal may or not be the same--I've heard the Kindles they sell have custom firmware so they may get a longer revenue share deal. They are certainly big enough to be "more equal".
For the US indies the deal is pretty straightforward: get a two year piece of the kindle pie, even from upgraders, an open-ended piece of the Kobo pie (but only new Kobo customers, so far), or get nothing from other epub customers. They don't really have much to offer so Amazon probably doesn't care much if they accept the offer or not.
Amazon just wants it on public record that they offered bookstores and small businesses a piece of the ebook action and were summarily dismissed by most.
That is priceless.
Cheap antitrust insurance.