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Originally Posted by azayn
No argument about ebook costs to libraries but I beg to differ about #2. Amazon is no friend of Indie authors. They switched from paying authors a flat fee per book downloaded to six tenth of a cent per page read scheme which nets them considerably less money.
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That seems an extreme statement to me. You can certainly argue that the money currently being paid might not be to everyone's liking, but it's a huge leap from there to "no friend of indie authors." I'd argue that indie authors
have no better friend than Amazon. Amazon's willingness to embrace self-publishing and to give Indie authors the huge platform they have, is one of the main reasons they (the indie authors) are able to make money
at all. The Indie boom simply wouldn't have happened without Amazon. How quickly some forget that without Amazon, self-pubbers are back to the days of vanity-publishing and screaming into the void for a handful of readers.