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So once more. Those who have typed out words and then clicked them up to Amazon and have added a price, their work should be separated from those who have taken the art of writing more seriously and have had their work proof read, copy edited etc. etc.
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You've already said that you don't have any problem finding good books to read, thus it isn't necessary to put a scarlet letter on self-published books for you to find good books. What would it actually do for anyone?
What's in it for Amazon? If it is such a good business decision to put a scarlet letter on self-published books, then why have the other e-book retailers done so? We could imagine that Amazon is making a business error, but when all doing the same thing, it's not very reasonable to think they are all making a mistake.
If they make money from self-published books, then it would be a bad business decision for them to put a scarlet letter on them. Why should Amazon make a bad business decision just to please you?
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If you want to call anyone and everyone who writes something an author, fair enough, but it not the word author that I have an issue with, (although I do not see them as authors) it is as I said above.
I have written a screen play, so am I a screenwriter? I have not sent it off to anyone, it is in my desk gathering dust. Yes or no?
If no, then if I click it up to Amazon, do I then become a screenwriter.
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I wasn't aware Amazon was in the business of selling scripts for movies. This is of course not analogous to self-published books. If you insist on this analogy, it would me taking the script you wrote and making a low-budget independent movie. That's the analogy to a self-published book. Just because your movie wasn't a Hollywood blockbuster doesn't mean that you aren't a scriptwriter.
You claim in one moment that the word "author" isn't your point, yet you insist on coming back to it. If it's not your point than rescind it, and move on. We can then get to the numerous flaws in your demand that Amazon put a scarlet letter on self-published books. You don't have to see people who have written books as being authors, provided you don't mind being wrong.