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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Only if they are utterly irrational or pointlessly malicious.
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Not at all. You won't sell your product in a form I can use, then I have no need of your product. It can fail and it won't bother me at all. The author is the malicious one by keeping his/her product from people who might have wanted it but now cannot get it.
Take J. A. Konrath for example He's a right arrogant a$$. He went exclusive with Amazon. But before he did that, he had his Jack Daniels series available in ePub. Then he pulls them right out from readers who won't buy from Amazon, do not use Calibre and/or do not convert. So for the people who read in ePub, he's screwed them over big time. Does he care? No. Does Amazon care? No. So what you can do is buy most of the series in ePub and that's it, you'd hit a brick wall and you are done. no more. The new books are Amazon only.
So when authors move to Amazon and take away things from readers, this is just malicious. It's just human nature to want them to fail at Amazon. SO really, going exclusive at Amazon can and does piss people off. You want to go exclusive and be thought of as an a$$ and having people want you to fail? Go for it.