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Originally Posted by Suzanna
Actually, Amazon is both a publisher and a distributor. If you upload your novel directly to Amazon through their KDP or KDP select program, they're a distributor.
Amazon Publishing is restricted to these lines and works in the same way as traditional publishers. Amazon acquires the rights to publish your manuscript and takes on all the roles of a traditional publisher - editing, cover design, etc.
So unless your book is being released on Amazon through one of the publishing imprints on their Amazon Publishing page, you're an indie author making use of their bookstore as a distributor.
Smashwords ... they're distributors. They don't undertake any of the traditional roles of a publisher, so it would be a bit of a stretch to call them that - whether or not they self-identify that way. |
You say that, but Smashwords seem to have more controls than Amazon, if you read most of the posts on MR.