They Own The System’: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry By Marching Into Publishing

Ted

FYI: Amazon.com Inc., AMZN 0.55% which over more than two decades made itself the world’s largest book retailer, has created an unrivaled display window that can catapult titles from obscurity to must-reads.

More recently it has built something else: Its own line of published books.

When veteran book author Mark Sullivan tried to sell a World War II saga in 2015, eight New York book publishers rejected it. Then Amazon’s publishing arm scooped up “Beneath a Scarlet Sky” for an advance in the low five figures.

The novel was released in 2017 and featured on Amazon First Reads. The online promotion also is emailed each month to more than 7 million U.S. subscribers and exclusively showcases titles from Amazon Publishing.
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Ted
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hank

I’ll be buying this one from Amazon as soon as it’s available later this month. Christie also narrates the audio edition of his book (not yet out). And while I’m far from being a fan, I’ll admit he’s a very good speaker. Should be a good listen. http://www.philly.com/politics/chris-christie-book-let-me-finish-trump-kushner-tie-20190116.html