This is a followup to an article that I wrote for the E-Commerce Times entitled “Why Publishers Are Afraid of Amazon.” In that article, I mention that Amazon is now facilitating those authors who choose to self-publish. I also mention that The New York Times recently quoted Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives, who said, “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and the reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.”
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Traditional Publishers: Refresh Your Business or Fade to Irrelevance
Posted by: Theodore F. di Stefano January 5, 2012 08:00 AMThis is a followup to an article that I wrote for the E-Commerce Times entitled “Why Publishers Are Afraid of Amazon.” In that article, I mention that Amazon is now facilitating those authors who choose to self-publish. I also mention that The New York Times recently quoted Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives, who said, “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and the reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.”