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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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I don't know that it's extreme. Amazon isn't a friend of indie authors. They see indie authors as a way to make money, no more and no less. That doesn't make them enemies, of course, but it's definitely a case of Caveat Emptor. Bezos has consistently pointed to WalMart as his model and WalMart during the 80's and 90's was about as cut throat a business as you could find. A god send for people in rural America who were under served, but suppliers who did business with them found out that it was a good way to lose your shirt if you weren't careful.