Amazon Can Screw Your Book, But It Can Also Make It a Blockbuster

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Sure, Amazon Can Screw Your Book, But It Can Also Make It a
Blockbuster
What happens when the book sales giant gives you a virtual hug

So, Oprah isn’t the only natural force that can move book sales?
Amazon.com, which commands 15 percent of the book sales market and has
been marketing books for years through carefully selected homepage
placements, gets credit today in the Journal for propping up books
like David Wroblewski’s 566-page coming-of-age The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle, which is now in its seventh printing. Other booksellers like
CostCo and Barnes & Noble are moving more copies too.

This is a departure from the other “Amazon Force” story that was just
told earlier this week, which focused not on how Amazon.com can move a
book to blockbuster status, but on how it can totally screw a
publisher out of sales, by disabling the Buy Now button and moving the
book to its virtual dustbins (back pages that are harder to find), if
they don’t play by the retail giant’s revenue-sharing rules.

But while we’re on a happy note, it might be worth drilling down
exactly how Amazon can send a no-name title to household name status
with just a few clicks.
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