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Originally Posted by gmw
That is an interesting one, isn't it. Do you submit to the dominant force in the market and become just another minor feed in its multiple gaping maws, or do you try to make a place for yourself outside that domination? The former may ensure some money for a while, but the risk is making yourself redundant and pointless. Many authors are already going directly and exclusively to Amazon, why would they need Smashwords? As I see it (and I accept that this is only an inexperienced view), authors currently go to Smashwords in order to be published everywhere else, if Amazon was their only/primary concern then that's where they'd concentrate their efforts (as many already do).
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Yes, that is what I do. I have opted out of Amazon on Smash so that even when they get up I will still go direct to Amazon because Amazon is much faster about everything. Customer Service, listings, payments, approvals, etc. They are just better at it.
BUT I
suspect that Smashwords is looking to migrate more and more into a publisher kind of role, and in which case getting into Amazon is critical to long time survivability I would think.