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Originally Posted by hyegeek
True, they can be pulled from selling more copies, but if people can read elsewhere they can't have the book the purchased taken away.
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Amazon exclusive authors can't publish elsewhere. Authors who also publishes on other platforms (whether they have DRM or not) said that what they earn from Amazon is more than what they earn from other platforms combined. That's why a lot of authors choose to publish exclusively on Amazon. Specially indie ones who can't afford to traditionally publish.
Us here in in this forum is a tiny, tiny fraction of Amazon's userbase. We won't even make a dent on their overall sales. Unless the authors you contact are Brandon Sanderson level, it won't really amount to much.
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Originally Posted by hyegeek
While that is the most common reason, it is certainly not true that that is the only reason. Even if it where, I'm not willing to believe they will not use the ability they clearly have to further whatever agenda they decide to.
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This is definitely a tinfoil hat moment. There have been no reported other cases where Amazon deleted books from Kindles that are not related to pirated content on their own store. If you know any other cases, please specify them so we can look them up.
Books that have been pulled from Amazon (either by the publishers or Amazon themselves) are still available for download to those who bought them.
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Originally Posted by hyegeek
"Problematic" by who's definition? Also, there are more than a few that have already been kept from publishing when there was nothing in their books (other than ideas not agreed to by Amazon) to warrant such action.
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Problematic by the public's definition. JK Rowling comes to mind.
Give us examples of authors that has been kept from being published because of their ideas. Those authors must have done something really, really bad for them to not be published, but authors who write about giant ice alien s3x are perfectly fine.
But this isn't really related to DRM policies.