It is almost hard to remember when all Amazon did was sell books — the paperback and hardcover versions, that is. Over the years, the company has morphed and then morphed some more into a multilayered e-commerce platform, selling everything from digital music to storage space in the cloud to, well, just about any consumer product imaginable. Now it appears Amazon is going back to its bookseller roots by getting into the publishing business. It’s expected to publish at least 122 books this fall in both physical and e-book form.
It's about time there is some real competition here. The big six publishers haven't had any real competition before, and this is a great thing for authors and the industry.
I'm writing daily about the death of the publishing industry as it stands today at http://www.nopublisherneeded.com and I'd love for you to stop by and leave a comment.
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Amazon Surges Into Book Publishers' Territory
Posted by: Erika Morphy October 18, 2011 05:00 AMIt is almost hard to remember when all Amazon did was sell books — the paperback and hardcover versions, that is. Over the years, the company has morphed and then morphed some more into a multilayered e-commerce platform, selling everything from digital music to storage space in the cloud to, well, just about any consumer product imaginable. Now it appears Amazon is going back to its bookseller roots by getting into the publishing business. It’s expected to publish at least 122 books this fall in both physical and e-book form.
I'm writing daily about the death of the publishing industry as it stands today at http://www.nopublisherneeded.com and I'd love for you to stop by and leave a comment.