Comments on: Amazon turns publisher, finally. Encore! http://booktwo.org/notebook/amazon-publisher/ The future of Literature Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:28:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James Bridle http://booktwo.org/notebook/amazon-publisher/comment-page-1/#comment-65644 James Bridle Wed, 20 May 2009 07:49:16 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=821#comment-65644 Michel: I'm not. The little guys I refer to are the small publishers acting as finders for Amazon, as they always have, to some extent, for the larger publishers. Michel: I’m not. The little guys I refer to are the small publishers acting as finders for Amazon, as they always have, to some extent, for the larger publishers.

]]> By: michel basilieres http://booktwo.org/notebook/amazon-publisher/comment-page-1/#comment-65643 michel basilieres Wed, 20 May 2009 05:39:20 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=821#comment-65643 hang on, hang on - you cannot, by any stretch of anyone's imagination, group amazon with the "little guys". Make no mistake, this is a large corporation, with all the good and bad that comes with any large corporation. (disclosure/bragging: I am the recipient of Amazon's largess in the form of the amazon.ca/Books In Canada First Novel Award. This does not make me any less/more a friend of Amazon) hang on, hang on – you cannot, by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, group amazon with the “little guys”. Make no mistake, this is a large corporation, with all the good and bad that comes with any large corporation.

(disclosure/bragging: I am the recipient of Amazon’s largess in the form of the amazon.ca/Books In Canada First Novel Award. This does not make me any less/more a friend of Amazon)

]]> By: peter collingridge http://booktwo.org/notebook/amazon-publisher/comment-page-1/#comment-65602 peter collingridge Thu, 14 May 2009 08:22:54 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=821#comment-65602 Great post. A few weeks ago - before Amazon also bought lexcycle - I read an interesting interview, I think with neelan choski, the CEO of lexcycle. He appeared, surprisingly given the outcome, to be warning of the power of Amazon. I think it was him, and the quote that stuck with me was along the lines of,"Amazon is a strategic decision away from being a publisher." looks like that decision has just been made, publicly. Great post. A few weeks ago – before Amazon also bought lexcycle – I read an interesting interview, I think with neelan choski, the CEO of lexcycle. He appeared, surprisingly given the outcome, to be warning of the power of Amazon. I think it was him, and the quote that stuck with me was along the lines of,”Amazon is a strategic decision away from being a publisher.” looks like that decision has just been made, publicly.

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