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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Hum, I'm not aware of any major imprints that Amazon owns. To the best of my knowledge, their publishing efforts are focused on indies and the stable of indie authors who have bought in to the ecosystem that Amazon provides. It's mostly eBooks and print on demand books.
I am very aware that Amazon pushes their indies authors at every opportunity. It's made their recommended list near uselessness for me.
But even so, the eBook market is much smaller than the paper market. Based on various reports that I've seen, eBook sales was roughly 20% of dead tree sales in 2018 and is in the same ball park as audiobook sales.
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There are quite a few and they’ve become much more prevalent...my public library has many. Before Author Earnings went away, his statistics showed some impressive growth in their imprint sales. Some are indies they’ve recruited but also a fair amount of former trad pub midlisters who’ve switched. Was interested to see Patricia Cornwell has a new release coming out with Thomas & Mercer in a few months - think she’s the ‘biggest’ name I’ve seen so far.
Some basic information here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Publishing
There have also been several articles recently that the translation imprint, amazon crossing, is now the US lead in producing translations.