Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by schnevets on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:00AM
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Innovations in publishing. Books are still being written, customers are still making purchases, there's clearly an appetite for longform writing, and yet everyone seems to have given up after Amazon "conquered" the industry with the Kindle.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by bawejakunal on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:52PM
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Do you have any concrete thoughts that you would want implemented in this domain ?
Amazon/Kindle self publishing is actually a less known but pretty clever innovation they did, especially for printed physical books. The books are printed on-demand after a customer places order on Amazon, instead of advanced publishing. This cuts down a lot on costs and resources for each book, cuts out lot of middlemen for a writer and also provides avenue for writers to go direct to market without giving up huge profits to publishing houses.
Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by wallacoloo on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:25AM
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Print On Demand has been around for decades. Before Amazon, it was companies like Lulu. I haven’t used Amazon’s POD, but I’m pretty sure the concept itself isn’t their innovation.