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Originally Posted by ApK
According to that email:
1. To see a boost to the reading culture, thereby increasing your indie value and market along with the BPH's.
2. To show solidarity against using authors as pawns in the dispute, which would, ostensibly, be remembered by Amazon if a KDP/indie issue every comes up.
Regardless of whether you think they are right, or have ulterior motives, I thought they were pretty clear on what they thought was in it for you and why you should want it.
ApK
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Of course they have ulterior motives ... although "ulterior" is probably not the right word, since it is pretty obvious: making money.
I don't see dropping ebooks from $14.99 to $9.99 as making a significant difference to the "reading culture". (Or probably even noticable, especially since $14.99 is quite an exaggeration of reality according to Hachette's response.) It's not like, as Amazon cited, the order of magnitude difference between hardcovers and paperbacks when they were first released.
How exactly is using me, as an author, in Amazon's big business dispute with Hachette, supposed to show "solidarity against using authors as pawns in the dispute". Isn't there something just a little skewed with that? Or is it just me?
Thanks for trying, but I'm still not convinced that there's anything in it for me (whichever way it goes).