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title: "Amazon gearing up to be book publisher?"
date: 2005-06-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
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  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
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# Amazon gearing up to be book publisher?

[kuro5hin.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062950/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/16/143632/005 "Amazon.com, Ebooks and "): “By acquiring a Print-on-Demand (POD) company and an ebook software company, Amazon.com is retooling itself to offer a complete publishing solution to authors disenchanted with the current state of publishing.”

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_gearing.php))*