Quote - Any time you put the burden on vendors to do more for the same profit, the less those vendors are willing to do it.

I can't speak to what Hivewire is doing, since I don't know, and this isn't really the place to discuss it.

But speaking of hypothetical business practices, indeed, people seem to keep forgetting that vendors are, for the most part, freelancers. You don't get to dictate onerous terms to freelancers unless you have such a large share of the market that they have no choice but to work with you. Hence the kerfuffle going in book publishing.

I was about to spout off my own theories about succeeding in the 3d content market, when it occurred to me that it could so easily be a very short-lived business anyway:

It seems to me that if Amazon joined in to the 3d content market, and vendors started migrating there, it'd change the game rather significantly. 

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