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elle newmark
Will Amazon Kindle Vertical Integration?
Posted on Wednesday, Oct 1st
I wrote a controversial Forbes column, How Amazon Could Change Publishing, in the spring. In this column, I submitted that Amazon could disintermediate traditional publishers and agents, and free up money that they could share with authors. My hypothesis was based on the fact that since Amazon has a technology-based merchandising system capable of figuring
Forbes Column 08: Web-Savvy Authors Reap Fame, Fortune
Posted on Friday, Jul 18th
My new column on Forbes, Web-Savvy Authors Reap Fame, Fortune tells Elle Newmark’s story of how she got to a seven-figure book deal using the Internet and print-on-demand technology.
