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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheLe" data-source="post: 4538559" data-attributes="member: 3981">It really doesn't work like that at all. Publishers have little desire to make exclusive products for one sales site, especially for an upstart new one.  Publishers are inherently greedy, and so they typically will not sell a special product at one site exclusively when they can make more money selling the same product at all the retail sites.Let's also talk about pure numbers. If new books will usually sell 100 copies when released at OBS, I would need to be able to sell least 130 books at the new site to justify an exclusive. Exactly how long will it take for the new site to gain enough traction to hit this number? It can be expensive to develop a book, and losing out on those near-guaranteed 100 sales at OBS is a hard pill to swallow.Now, even if a few publishers create exclusives for the new site (note that I would be willing to do this), we would really need many of them to participate to gain any kind of momentum with customers. It's not like game consoles, where that "one really cool" Xbox exclusive game will get thousands of kids to rush out to buy an Xbox.Still, its not a bad idea.Maybe "creating one exclusive" per publisher could be requirement to join the new site?~Le</blockquote>