The Super Long Tail

Posted on | August 29, 2007 | Comments Off

Judy O’Connell has mentioned Amazon’s new service, CreateSpace. As Judy says, this is:

“Amazon’ on-demand self-publishing service for the super long tail of books, audio CD’ and film DVD/Blue-ray. Products automatically get an ISBN number(a huge draw-card) and are listed on Amazon.com, including ‘Search Inside’ for books.”

And openeur.com writes:

“The concept of CreateSpace from our point of view holds the potential to heavily jumble the publishing landscape up. Hereby it is shown once more, what fundamental consequences for the way we are understanding the economic coherences, the creation of value in networks can have. Artists had until now only the opportunity to achieve the publishing of their works by intermediaries like the big publishing companies for example with their affiliated distribution channels. A publishing within the framework of self publishers was markedly expensive and furthermore because of missing distribution channels less promising. Now, everyone can operate his own publishing house over an outstanding distribution channel like Amazon.com and is able to both publish his self created media and on behalf of third-party artists. The service seems to be useful especially for small editions, for instance the publishing of scientific work like dissertations.”

Other people and other sites have offered similar products, but with Amazon behind this venture, we could be looking at a heavy-duty contender in this space!

What a pity then that, for the moment, the book setup facility is not open to ‘non-US members due to tax considerations’.

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