Thanks for the info, everyone! Now I know, at least, that the authors get some advantage, and have, presumably, decided that they'd rather have those advantages than have anti-Amazon curmudgeons like me as customers.
I wonder that this is legal -- I remember Microsoft lost a lawsuit and was forbidden to bundle their browser with the operative system, because the court found that they were using their market dominance to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors. This seems like a lot more blatant example of that.
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