Cutting Out The Middle Man: Amazon As Publisher

Amazon’s new Kindle could be moving towards not only being a more accessible bookstore, but a melting pot for new and hopeful authors as well.  The new Kindle supports PDF’s, and Tom Martin wonders if Amazon could become a new hub of activity for budding writers looking to get their ebooks into the public consciousness, and eventually officially published.

He explains:

You see, I think Amazon doesn’t just want to be your bookstore. No, with the newest Kindle, [Amazon link] they have set their eyes on a bigger prize. They want to cut out HarperCollins, Penguin and Wiley from the entire equation. You laugh, but think about it.

The new Kindle supports PDF. If I have one of those eBooks from Amber up there, I can email it to my Kindle (if I had one) and presto – Amber is a published author on my Kindle. If I’m Amazon, I want to make it even easier. I’ll invite folks like Chris and Amber to post their free eBooks on Amazon and then I’ll put the best ones on the front page of the site for Kindle owners to find. I might even want to push my Top 10 or Top 100 list directly to the Kindles. Or maybe each Kindle will get a “recommended” book each month based on the books they download already. It would be sort of Amazon’s “gift” of discovery. Who wouldn’t like that?

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