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What is potentially dangerous is that companies like Amazon will become the curators of literature instead of the publishers. While both are of course concerned with turning a profit, I doubt if Amazon really cares as much about the integrity of its publications. Like the article pointed out huge stores like Wal-mart and Costco account for 40% of the market mostly pandering very popular mainstream books that create larger revenues. The industry will follow suit and produce more books of this kind and less independent and obscure works. I think it will change the way authors write and what they write about.
thenewgreen · 4687 days ago · link ·
I think if you eliminate the publishers and make it possible for anyone to offer their work on Amazon etc you'll have the same effect you did with music. I'm able to sell my albums through iTunes without being signed to a label or having a publishing agent etc. People like me have been able to reach thousands of people when in the past that wouldn't have been possible. I see obscure work benefitting from this.