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No one is questioning the strict legality of Amazon's UK tax structures, but many of us are questioning the spirit and ethos of the company that is again exhibited thereby. It is grotesquely unfair. The rest of us pay our taxes...
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As an American, I consider it my God given DUTY to give as little as possible to the government. So my sympathies lie with Amazon on this note.
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New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely, tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops – and Amazon is acting to achieve just that – and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed
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What a complete load of codswallop! For my counter example, simply check out Michael Sullivan, author of the Riyria Revelations. Started slow as ebook only. Wrote a great series, word of mouth, and boom, it took off.
And the whole tone of the article has not one single positive thing that the publishing industry COULD DO to make things better for themselves. There is not a single bit of taking responsibility, it is all Amazons fault.
It is posts like that that get my dander up and make me want the publishers to FAIL, even though I don't really....