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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
@Justin Nemo: If you're the one taking full responsibility for your writing project and you're the one responsible for all the costs (monetary and moral)... you're an Indie. Smashwords and Amazon are your distributor, but you're the one coming up with the words, the images, and the marketing. You're your own publisher - it's not like the big publishing houses go out and open their own stores all over the place to sell their stuff. No, they distribute through various companies, including Amazon.
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As I said way back in the deep dark depths of this thread, Amazon and Smashwords deem themselves as Epublishers now. You may think of them as only distributors, but do distributors put the kind of controls on a persons work as we've seen on other threads here?
So if these companies are publishers or epublishers and you use them, are you truly an indie author?