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You're looking at it from the point of a customer. Sure, if you want to buy a book you could use a different retailer, they probably have the book too. From th
by Anderkent 12y ago
You're looking at it from the point of a customer. Sure, if you want to buy a book you could use a different retailer, they probably have the book too.
From the point of the producer, if you're not on amazon, you're not reaching 80% of your audience. You don't have a choice.
- WalterBright 12y agoI've bought ebooks from people's own web sites that were not available from Amazon. They did their own promotion, such as posting reddit articles about their books. They reached a worldwide audience, and (presumably) kept 100% of the sales revenue.
- Anderkent 12y agoYou might have. You're hardly representative. If everyone bought books on personal web sites, amazon wouldn't have 80% market penetration.