Interesting article, Alec. I don’t think publishers should worry too much, though (at least not yet), as Amazon has yet to acquire a publishing “prestige” factor. But we could be seeing the start of a Microsoft-like monopoly developing with, as the article says, Amazon developing, promoting and delivering the product itself. Whether this is good or bad depends on how much editorial control (if any) Amazon will have over the authors it publishes.
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