The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut - article in The Atlantic

[Tom Wood]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/08/amazons-plan-take-over-world-publishing/595630/

Indeed, Amazon Publishing knows its readers and has pursued their appetites since its inception. Jeff Belle, the vice president of Amazon Publishing, acknowledged their tastes in a 2011 interview: “Our customers are voracious readers of genre fiction.” (Amazon declined to make Belle or other Amazon executives available for an interview.) Those readers don’t luxuriate in individual books or pay much attention to the tastes of New York literary gatekeepers. Fans of romances and thrillers, Hildick-Smith says, tend to race through books quickly, which makes Amazon’s easily accessible ebooks and borrowing programs especially appealing to them. A duo writing under the pen name Alexa Riley told The Atlantic last year that they published three books a month to keep pace with demand.

Should anyone tell the journalist?

[verysecretsquirrel]

Should anyone tell the journalist?

He seems happy enough in his utter cluelessness; best leave him so.

[RPatton]

He says the quote is from a year ago. It was likely sourced from this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/amazon-kindle-unlimited-self-publishing/565664/ written more than a year ago.

[Marti Talbott]

Hope you don't mind my changing the subject a little. From the same article:
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And Amazon Publishing is a culture-making juggernaut, even if the literati don’t much think about it. According to Peter Hildick-Smith, the CEO of the book-industry analysis firm the Codex Group, roughly 25.5 million U.S. households bought books in the past month, and fully a quarter of those households use Prime Reading, a feature of Amazon Prime that allows subscribers to borrow 10 items at a time from a catalog of 1,000 ebooks, magazines, and other media, including the tech giant’s originals.
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Readers have to choose from only 1,000 ebooks? I've never heard that before. Is that per genre?

"...25.5 million U.S. households bought books in the past month..." Wow, my sales are lower than I thought.

[RPatton]

Hope you don't mind my changing the subject a little. From the same article:
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And Amazon Publishing is a culture-making juggernaut, even if the literati don’t much think about it. According to Peter Hildick-Smith, the CEO of the book-industry analysis firm the Codex Group, roughly 25.5 million U.S. households bought books in the past month, and fully a quarter of those households use Prime Reading, a feature of Amazon Prime that allows subscribers to borrow 10 items at a time from a catalog of 1,000 ebooks, magazines, and other media, including the tech giant’s originals.
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Readers have to choose from only 1,000 ebooks? I've never heard that before. Is that per genre?

"...25.5 million U.S. households bought books in the past month..." Wow, my sales are lower than I thought.

Prime is not KU. Prime members have a curated list of books they can borrow from.