Last week Amazon once again stirred up the publishing world by making a contract with D.C. Comics for exclusive rights to their ebooks. Now that Amazon has put their own version (Kindle Fire) of the tablet computer on the market full color comics can finally come straight to your home via their electronic device. It seems like an awesome step in the right direction, I mean now we don't even have to go out and buy our comic books, or wait for them to come in to the bookstore. We can get it all with the touch of a button.
But apparently this isn't all a good thing. Books A Million and Barnes and Noble were so outraged about Amazon getting exclusive rights that they yanked D.C. Comics off their shelves. They contended that if they couldn't have the electronic rights, then they didn't want the books themselves. I suppose that's a wise move, maybe.
However, I don't think it'll do anything in the face of the ebook wave. Besides, these massive bookstore chains aren't considering their competition from Apple and iBook. Although Apple has licensed relatively few books compared with Amazon, the market's still trending toward electronic publishing rather than hard copies in bookstores.
Audiences these days are fickle, if they can't get it at the touch of a button, they may decide they don't want it at all - well, aside from the die-hard fans. I think this means Books A Million and Barnes and Noble may have to cut their losses before it turns into an all out war. One that I'm sure they won't win.
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