[Ken Maltby]

Could you explain "the discounting issues I experienced through other retailers have
hurt my royalties at Amazon", are you saying that Amazon pays you less if you have
ebooks listed at other retailers?

Given a few posts by authors, it would seem that Amazon is already well on its way to
a gaining a near monopoly for ebook sales. I think that the fact that Kindle ads are
about all that are out there, and that Amazon was wise and quick enough to have apps
for every platform, would make for them having a substantial lead on the other retailers,
but what I am reading here sounds unlikely. Still, if the authors are getting paid directly
by the retailers, they should have the royalty checks to go by, and that should be the
most important data source, from their point of view.

Luck;
Ken

P.S. Historically, publishing monopolies have squeezed the authors/writers as much or
more than they squeezed the readers.