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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
P.S. Historically, publishing monopolies have squeezed the authors/writers as much or more than they squeezed the readers.
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Yeah... I know authors have to make a living, but as a reader and a writer, I'm really uncomfortable with how many people have jumped on the Only At Amazon bandwagon.
That said, B&N and the rest of the stores will not live or die by indie author availability. So I'm not thinking that Amazon will make a full-on monopoly out of this. Having said
that, while I do currently buy from Amazon because they are occasionally priced lower for things on my "must have" paper-book conversion list, I never buy from them for indie titles or "browsing". I do all that on B&N.