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I went to read thinking maybe there will be some great insight behind his reasoning. But all it came down to was, bookstores will never sell amazon books, so n
by scdoshi 13y ago
I went to read thinking maybe there will be some great insight behind his reasoning.
But all it came down to was, bookstores will never sell amazon books, so no major authors will ever go there, so they are fucked.
It's almost annoyingly short-sighted.
- lmb 13y agoA friend of mine, who is working in the publishing industry, always tells me how publishing is about the book (as a physical product). When she does that I always reply that it's about the story, not the way you deliver it. Why is it bad to be digital first, physical later?
- sentenza 13y agoWhile I agree with you that not being in bookstores is no dealbreaker any more, I'd like to add that the way things are going is not really satisfying. What if the book/media market, in its natural state, converges towards one big dominating online shop? Call it the Amazon-takes-it-all system. That can't be good. But it seems like it can't be avoided either, doesn't it?
- waps 13y agoThe problem is that the quality of books published on Amazon is definitely lower than books published by other publishers. Amazon is making publishing cheaper, meaning there is no longer any quality filter before books are made. So Amazon is creating a lemon market [1], and generally destroying book publishing to make a buck. People THINK Amazon published books are "as good" as publishers books, and therefore lower the income for the good books. The end result will be crap books only. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
- Turing_Machine 13y agoYou're right. Western Union telegraph offices will never sell telephone service, either, and that hipster vinyl store is never going to sell MP3s. This matters why, exactly?