What the New Republic thinks of KDP

[LilyBLily]

Actually, it's a book review:

https://newrepublic.com/article/163531/amazon-changed-novel-fiction

Interesting about "Program Era" literary fiction--probably the reason I never read any of it.

I contest the claim that Amazon has put small bookstores out of business. AFAIK they're doing much better since B&N contracted and Borders died. They were the big killers. If small bookstores ever were the main venue to buy genre novels, especially mass market paperbacks, it was for a short transitional period only. Historically, paperbacks were sold where magazines were sold, in candy stores, drug stores, and newsstands, and then in grocery stores and discount stores. Now some of those venues are dead, magazines are struggling and nearly gone, and discount stores sell trade paperbacks, too. One could as easily claim that Target and Walmart have killed small bookstores. Especially Walmart, an easy target for having killed everything.     

[DmGuay]

This was an interesting read, if nothing else.

[PJ Post]

I will agree with the article in that Amazon is responsible for changing/disrupting/redefining publishing, especially fiction, in the same way that digital audio workstation software (DAW) has changed how music is written/recorded/marketed. Like it or not, we are now a world of content creators, each of us a Brand that companies are eager to help promote - for a fee of course.

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