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Originally Posted by Rizla
The perception that Amazon is on the side of readers or authors anymore than publishing houses is absurd. What Amazon do they do to suit themselves. It might suit you today and it might not suit you tomorrow. There is nothing altruistic about any of them.
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Then it is a good thing we never expected them to be anything but self-serving.
The "subtle" point you may have missed is that Amazon currently recognizes that doing what's best for them means imitating altruism. Which means that readers currently enjoy buying through Amazon, at what we consider fair prices, with
no obligation to keep buying if one day all the what-ifs come true, and writers enjoy publishing through Amazon while keeping their rights to pull their wares at any time and retain full ownership.