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Originally Posted by stonetools
All your reservations are well noted, but it seems clear that there are 56,000 authors who are more interested in getting help seeking an audience than in asking those questions. Your questions are more reader-centric ( "How can I get unfettered access to this book, should I want it") than author-centric (" How can I get paid for doing the creative work that I love").
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I don't see my questions or concerns as reader centric; I see them as author centric. As a reader, I could care less whether an author gets screwed by Amazon -- I just want to read the book. As an author, I would be very concerned about getting screwed by Amazon -- I want to get paid and I want to keep my rights.
I know that 56,000 authors have signed on, but I have yet to have any author answer the question I have repeatedly raised: What is the author really getting by the deal as opposed to what the author hopes to get by participating?
And I'll repeat what I have said before: if this exclusivity deal with Amazon is so great, why are the terms different for different authors and publishers? A great deal is a great deal and everyone should be clamoring to get aboard on the same terms. But that doesn't appear to be the case.