Interesting Article Re Amazon and Publishing

First order of business: To the Powers-That-Be: If this is not in the right section, please feel free to relocate it!

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Yesterday in Nathan Bransford's 'This Week in Publishing' blog entry (6/5/08), he mentions (and links to) an article:

Sir Thomas de Kay from 101 Reasons to Stop Writing wrote quite the takedown of a Forbes article that asserted authors would all be better off if they'd just accept 35% of revenue from Amazon and have them be the publisher, thereby phasing out publishers and agents (also competition). Short version of 101 Reasons' rebuttal: um, no.

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http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/05/27/balderdash-how-amazon-could-change-publishing/

The article has some relevant observations with regard to vanity publishing as well.

The link to the Forbes article is also included, have a look! Don't miss the reader comments either ...