Andrew Wylie advises you “pick the plague” over Amazon
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But all it came down to was, bookstores will never sell amazon books, so no major authors will ever go there, so they are fucked.
It's almost annoyingly short-sighted.
Call it the Amazon-takes-it-all system. That can't be good.
But it seems like it can't be avoided either, doesn't it?
So Amazon is creating a lemon market [1], and generally destroying book publishing to make a buck. People THINK Amazon published books are "as good" as publishers books, and therefore lower the income for the good books.
The end result will be crap books only.
Western Union telegraph offices will never sell telephone service, either, and that hipster vinyl store is never going to sell MP3s.
This matters why, exactly?
So very funny. I like print personally, but the direction of the future is quite clear.
There are just so many authors these days who self publish on Amazon - digital only. And they do fine! The better the author the better they do, which is how it should be.
A common format is a series of short-ish books, the first is free the rest are $0.99. In print they would probably be combined as a single work.