10-18-2011, 05:54 PM | #61 | |
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Perhaps, Amazon didn't want to give other retailers 30-35% commission. |
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10-18-2011, 08:04 PM | #62 | |
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Will the publishers push back now and say, you can't sell our books if you are our competition. I mean will they challenge Amazon with a "let's get it on!" |
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10-18-2011, 08:20 PM | #63 | |
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And I think those were new books. |
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10-18-2011, 08:26 PM | #64 |
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Are you agreeing? My point was directed at large firms. In the USA innovation and new trends have rarely come from large concerns, after all they usually benefit from the status quo. High capital investment companies especially tend to grow by using money to buy competitors or enter after a concept is proven. For example Apple approached Dropbox and was rejected. They are now establishing the Apple equivalent. My feeling is that all the commitees and reviews give to many people the power to kill any idea with risk, and any real innovation has significant risk.
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10-18-2011, 08:36 PM | #65 |
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I think Amazon will be fair to everyone because it realizes that it is a target because it is so big and successful. I read that congress is looking into the new browser for the Fire because it has user data to help expedite the browsing, though other browsers also do it. I think they listed opera and chrome among them.
If Amazon is smart, and I think they have proven that, they will go overboard on not looking like they are anti-competitive. (Except when it comes to service and prices, and it is there they will blow their competition apart with chain guns.) |
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10-18-2011, 08:40 PM | #66 | |
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10-18-2011, 08:47 PM | #67 | |
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10-18-2011, 09:09 PM | #68 | |
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and dont forget that theyre probably the best and easiest site out there to sell your unwanted stuff through. they make it so easy a monkey can do it. pure evil, man. pure evil. |
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10-19-2011, 06:55 AM | #69 |
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The 288,000 number is books published by traditional book publishers. The figure rises to more than 2 million books if nontraditional publishing (primarily self-published) books are included.
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10-19-2011, 07:57 AM | #70 |
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10-19-2011, 08:40 AM | #71 | |
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Even among the ePub sellers there are three incompatible DRM formats. (four if you include kepub). If Amazon used ePub they would do so with their own DRM, just like Apple and B&N. There would be almost no visible difference to a Kindle user either way. |
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10-19-2011, 09:11 AM | #72 |
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I just saw where DC Comics is hinting that their stuff will be sold by others in the future, but they cited non-disclosure as a reason to not give any details.
They also seem surprised at their fans response. On the other hand, Amazon has no comment. |
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10-19-2011, 01:02 PM | #74 | |
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Why would they expend 'political capital' renegotiating their agency agreements? When you say should you seem to mean that you want them to, rather than that you think it is their interests to do so. |
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10-19-2011, 01:02 PM | #75 |
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That's why they're called Kindle exclusive. My argument is that whatever publishing entity Amazon creates will not necessarily be Kindle exclusive.
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