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Originally Posted by Rizla
Ah, okay. So Amazon is not quite the champion of indie-publishers I thought they were.
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I think it is fair to say that they used to be--and they used indies to gain market share, do a lot of Amazon marketing of kindles and books, generate interest, etc. Right now, even those in Amazon Select don't get the benefits that we did 7 or 8 years ago. Their business model has changed. They needed indies more in the past--and the reader market has changed too. They are merely responding to market changes (and ad dollars.) Indies and small publishers have to adapt or die.