On: Amazon Flexes Its Muscles in Fight Against Publishers

[lauradhamilton]

I don't agree with this. I think that a 30% price difference is significant.

In the current market, I think that publishers get far too large a fraction of the revenue and authors far too small. If the author creates the content and promotes the content (with the help of Amazon) what value is the publisher adding? Copyediting? Legitimacy stamp?

[hughw → lauradhamilton]

A better deal from Amazon than individual authors could get on their own.

[Turing_Machine → hughw]

Not true.

Amazon pays individual authors 70% of retail. That's far more than they get from any publisher.