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The danger with amazon is that it is a de facto monopoly. It's all very well to say that authors are not getting cheated because they can go somewhere else, but if there is realistically nowhere else, they can't go there.
Abusive practices cannot be justified by saying it's business. It's immoral. I respect amazon and anyone's right to make a back, but there has to be a moral consideration in the process.
I'm not saying amazon is necessarily abusive. I don't know enough about the details. But it is a concern in general. Government needs to regulate this type of thing because we cannot expect or trust companies to regulate themselves in a moral fashion.
Unfortunately the corporations appear to have bought the governments, at least in the USA and the UK.
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