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Originally Posted by C.I.Bond
I don’t think Amazon has any interest in the Indies because frankly there is a lot of work to manage them and not much money there. They do have an interest in getting Indie to publish with them though, it looks cool at it draws attention to the Kindle – which is something that they actually can make money on.
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I don't think that Amazon makes much money from the indies: they probably make more money from one Nora Roberts book than they do from all of the indies put together. I don't think that they're doing it for the "cool" factor, either - there are too many indies that are fan fiction, amateurish romance novels, or "Twilight" clones for them to be considered "cool." And I don't think that Amazon makes any money from selling the Kindle; they make money from selling books.
But Amazon is very interested in selling books. And as the books it sells can only be read on Kindles, they are interested in having Kindles in as many people's hands as possible. So good support for indies means more people having Kindles, means those people buy other books from Amazon, too.
And the more this happens, the less willing people will be to switch to another reader/store, since they have already so many books in Amazon's format.