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Ask HN: Should or shouldn’t Amazon.com create a publishing company?
In light of recent events, I can’t see why they don’t begin publishing. Would this make sense for Amazon? If not, what issues make it a bad move?
- stonemetal 17y agoThey do publish, or rather let you self publish through them. http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/mm-summary-page.html?ie=UTF8&ld=AZFooterSelfPublish&topic=200260520 http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/mm-summary-page.html...
- ippisl 17y agoIt's a long term strategy, and very much dependent on kindle market share. It's not a move that will help the kindle in the near/mid-term future. And that's where they're focusing now. But in the long term if the kindle becomes popular , it might be a good move.
- mooism2 17y agoI'm sceptical. What does Amazon know about publishing? With the Kindle, they were already skilled at retailing and designing user interfaces. With their cloud services, they were selling a service they had to provide for themselves anyway. Why would an author sign to Amazon instead of an established publisher? What could Amazon do better than them?