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The motivation of the publisher-bashing commentariat is what I cannot figure out

September 29, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 318 Comments

Once again this morning we wake up to a piece by David Streitfeld in The New York Times about Authors United and their ongoing effort to discredit Amazon. The message coming loud and clear from the legacy publishing establishment is that Amazon doesn’t appreciate, and perhaps doesn’t understand, the value that agents, publishers, and chain and […]

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Are Amazon exclusives the next big challenge for everybody else in publishing?

September 22, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

Somebody smarter (or more patient about wading through data) than I am could probably figure out how far along this bifurcation is already, but Amazon is doing its very best to build a body of content that is desirable and available from nobody else but them. This is something you can do when you’re in […]

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