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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
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?
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Yes.
The difference is I still control the content of my book. Amazon can only choose "list or not list." Amazon can not order me to "change the title" or other such changes. They can call themselves what they want, but they are filling the roll of a distributor. They can say "if you do not don this, we will not carry your book in our store" but that does not prevent me from putting it on Smash, Bookie Jar, and anywhere I want.
IMO I am "independent author" who is "self-published."
But... its all subjective opinion so there really is not a wrong answer.
