If the history of commerce on the Internet is at all predictive, then we probably have a good ten years before big publishers bring the right big guns to the fight and suck up the majority of the market. That leaves a lot of time for disruptive newcomers to transform the marketplace significantly enough that they emerge as permanent and powerful market leaders.
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The good and bad news from the pricing war between Amazon and publishers
If Macmillan and other publishers get their way with Amazon and negotiate an agency model approach that lets them practice variable pricing, it’s not all bad news. Here are two perks for customers and authors.