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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
Most of you have gone off topic how about how Amazon has been good or bad for you. The article is not about how Amazon is effecting you the customer but publisher and authors that are the sellers. I have updated the link to the article.
As much as I hate publishers I have to agree that Amazon has too much power to make or break a new author. But I think partially the publishers themselves are to blame.
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As opposed to the BPHs making or breaking authors based on how much payola they budget to support their book? Or just plain breaking them by getting getting into a fight with a retailing chain and forbidding them to appear at signings they organized and paid for out of their own pocket? Or by sticking their books with horribly inappropriate covers? Or pricing them too high for their target market? Or colluding to depress royalties, limit bidding at manuscript autions, or any of the hundreds of ways tradpub has been screwing over others because they had a stranglehold on distribution?
That kind of power?
What I see is the publishing establishment fretting that Amazon *might* someday do what they have *certainly* been doing for decades. Because screwing authors is *their* privilege and they are not about to have it usurped by some techie company out somewhere in the hinterlands.
Perhaps someday Amazon will start acting like the Manhattan mafia and it will then by time to "do something" about them. But so far they haven't and there is no need.