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Amazon’s e-book push: Good for other retailers, writers—or a ‘company store’ scenario?
August 9, 2006 | 7:44 am
When I first heard that Amazon wanted to push e-books hard, I thought, "Great! If anyone can move e-books into the mainstream, it's Amazon!"
This big, trendy company is capable of mainstreaming almost anything. Wealth and will are there. Market cap on Wall Street is $11 billion; revenue, $9 billion. CEO Jeff Bezos is an e-commerce icon hailed as a genius---he's reportedly worth $4.3 billion. Now, how will writers and publishers fare?
Amazon's possibilities
His empire's e-book initiative actually could be very good not just for established authors but also for the unpublished and self-published varieties. I've sold hundreds of...



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