I think you're all picking on Amazon just because they're an industry monololith aiming to be a monopoly, wish to have complete control over practically all aspects of distributing an author's work,without any of the hassle that publishers have to go through to produce their work, and don't care a fig about any damage they might do to the book trade, individual authors, or the readers much, as long as they keep paying........
I mean, what's not to like ?
Give them a break for goodness sake.