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Originally Posted by calibrated
And since you're in favor of it, apparently you're not going to publish through Amazon Encore anyway (otherwise you wouldn't be in favor of it), so it doesn't affect you either. You have a clear choice, and you've made it.
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I made my choice
because of the preceding Amazon announcement that this is in relation to. You're treating the B&N decision like it's occurring in a vacuum.
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Originally Posted by calibrated
I'm not in favor of either Amazon or B&N. I'm in favor of choice. Anything that restricts that choice is bad, IMO, whether it be a store not stocking what I want or a publisher not making its books available in my preferred bookstore.
Right now, it doesn't affect me--my favorite authors don't publish through Amazon--but someday, it might. And that's why I'm calling a pox on both their houses. Amazon is holding authors hostage ("you can't sell your books there"), and B&N is blackmailing them ("that's a nice book ya got there, it'd be a terrible shame if nobody had a chance to buy it"). Both are reprehensible.
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B&N is not reprehensible for refusing to help Amazon muscle their Nook store out of business. You think you'd end up with MORE choice if B&N helped Amazon Encore look like a super-fabulous-fun thing and all indie authors joined Amazon Encore? (Hope you like buying Kindles in your reprehensible-free future, then!)
Also, as a Nook owner, I would be highly disappointed if B&N helped to make Amazon Encore seem like the best thing ever for indie authors. I mean, way to thumb your nose at your customer base.