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Originally Posted by anamardoll
This makes me uncomfortable. I'm reminded of Walmart essentially bullying a lot of vendors into unfavorable contracts. That only helps the consumer in the short term, and -- in this case -- certainly not the authors.
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But is it really Amazon's responsibility to help the authors? And besides, they
are helped by listing on Amazon; if you look back 50 years, it was much harder to make it as a writer. Not that it's easy now, but at least you can more easily get disseminated and read.
I've run into several articles by authors stating that they made more going Amazon-only than by using all the other channels at once... and they were frustrated by this... but part of it is clearly that Amazon has greater reason to market exclusives. I think I've run into just one article where the author decided Amazon was the less profitable path.