Amazon jumps into publishing "with both feet"
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News: http://ereads.com/2011/05/larry-kirshbaum-to-run-amazon-nyc.html
My take: Amazon is doing exactly what I and many others predicted. They're not "becoming" a publisher per se, they disintermediating publishing; they're "removing the middle-man" between author and reader. Amazon is transitioning from being an increasingly powerful online bookseller in a diverse book ecosystem to being an end-to-end vertical monopoly in a desert.
My take: Amazon is doing exactly what I and many others predicted. They're not "becoming" a publisher per se, they disintermediating publishing; they're "removing the middle-man" between author and reader. Amazon is transitioning from being an increasingly powerful online bookseller in a diverse book ecosystem to being an end-to-end vertical monopoly in a desert.
