When Amazon came to talk to me about being included on the reader a long long time ago, I said sure, but. The but is that I wanted my books to be free and included in every reader, and my blog, too. And the people willing to buy the device are exactly the sort of people that an author like me wants to reach. No harm, no foul, all 3 of us win. If there were 1m of these machines out there and an author had a chance to have her next book show up automatically on all of them, few among us would say, “no thanks to that exposure.”

This is a disruptive approach, the sort of thing only a market leader could pull off. It changes the world in a serious way. I wanted to be part of that. I was unpersuasive. Sorry.

too little too late. instead of creatively destroying the publishing industry, amazon opted for lame middleman.

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