Wednesday, July 30, 2014

How Amazon Brought Publishing to Its Knees — and Why Authors Might Be Next

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Morgan Entrekin is happy with the relationships that he has developed with Amazon. As the president of independent publisher Grove/Atlantic Books, he witnessed the industry change as Amazon’s introduction of the Kindle helped publishers like him embrace the digital revolution that has battered other industries.


It's the future that he's worried about.


“Right now [Amazon] is allowing me a perfectly fair margin, but what happens when they have total control or twice as much of the market share than they have now?” he said.


Entrekin's sentiment isn't unusual. Amazon's skirmishes with various publishers had been obscure to most until May, when the e-commerce giant began to block preorders of upcoming Hachette books. Since then, the dispute has been a public one, especially by Amazon's usually tight-lipped nature Read more...


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