Thread: Authors call on FTC to investigate Amazon’s alleged monopoly in bookselling
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Old 08-18-2023, 07:22 PM   #44
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Some are PD simply indy republished off IA or Gutenberg
Some are indy books violating copyright.

I can't say I've noticed actual Amazon published ones.
I'm not interested in public domain books so I wouldn't know about that. However, I was able to purchase books that Amazon put under their Curtis Brown Digital label back in 2014. The author died all the way back in 2003. I loved her books and would never had been able to purchase the books I had in paper now in ebook format if Amazon hadn't scooped them up.

The same with Leslie Charteris The Saint series under their Thomas & Mercer label.

As far as I'm concerned, this is a good thing for readers.
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