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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Or maybe they have a series of purchase orders.
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That is exactly how they are selling pbooks: they take consumer orders and then send purchase orders to Hachette.
With indie ebooks, when a publisher uploads the book Amazon keeps on selling them until the publisher pulls them or Amazon chooses to pull them for violations to the KDP contract.
The key point is that what the millionaire authors have been excoriating Amazon for not doing is stuff Amazon is under no obligation to do. They act as if Amazon were legally or morally obligated to promote, discount, and warehouse their books. They aren't. Any obligation they had ended with the old contract. And since there is no new contract or even active negotiations...
Whatever service level they have provided since april is effectively a courtesy. Or charity.