Will independent booksellers join new Amazon Source program?

According to Publishers Weekly today, Amazon is starting a brand new service which will affect all independent booksellers should they decide to take them up on their offer.  It's called Amazon Source.

"Amazon is starting a new program, called Amazon Source, through which bookstores and other retailers can sell Kindle devices and in return receive 10% of the revenue from every Kindle e-book sold for a two-year period. Under the program, which Amazon v-p for Kindle Russ Grandinetti said is an outgrowth of a successful partnership the company began with the U.K. bookstore chain Waterstones in 2012, retailers interested in selling Kindles have two options: order Kindles for a 9% discount off the list price and a 35% discount on accessories; or receive a 6% discount on devices and a 30% discount on accessories and earn 10% of the revenue from Kindle e-books sold for two years."

Read the rest of the article here

Interesting.  Some are for; some are against.  What do you think about it?

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