Small publisher says Amazon helped it to survive and prosper

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By Paul Biba

From an editorial in Publishers Weekly.  It’s by Stephen Roxburgh, president and publisher of Namelos, LLC.  Here’s a snippet:

Let me hasten to add that we are a minuscule company, but we are able to publish a few good books successfully thanks to ongoing library sales and digital sales. Amazon is one of our most important customers and a publishing partner through its Kindle Publishing Program. …

Big publishing was enchanted with Amazon for a decade when it was their fastest-growing customer, and it still is one of their largest customers. Now Amazon is the big bad wolf. They can’t have it both ways. Booksellers have a tougher row to hoe, but they’ve been here before in competition with the major chains. Independent booksellers will adapt and survive. I believe technology will work for them, just as it has for small independent publishers.

From the point of view of this lunatic fringe publisher, Amazon, with all its glitches and stumbles, is crucial to our success. And I, for one, applaud the innovation and transformation Amazon has brought to the publishing world.

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