March 23, 2004

The Great American Novel Finally on Amazon?

In an otherwise uninteresting article about self-publishing, I came across this paragraph:

Publishing a book takes a year because everyone expects it to - not because it has to. Not surprisingly, Amazon is eyeing the self-publishing niche. The Web site has roughly 10% of the retail book market but nabbed 40% of Kessler's sales. Big self-published books mean big market share.
Is this true? It'd be interesting to see what happens to POD if Amazon throws its hat in the ring.

posted by Laila Lalami at 06:05 PM