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While 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
by sentenza 13y ago
While 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