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Originally Posted by maddz
Unfortunately, it's to do with the relative volume of sales between Amazon and other storefronts. Sales through all other storefronts put together are a fraction of the Amazon sales, but still have the same overhead in terms of book management for each storefront. Basically, it's a business decision - they don't have the staffing levels to release anywhere else.
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Sales on all other platforms together might equal Amazon, but don't because people don't list or use KU via KDP Select. Only Google Playbooks on Playstore is really poor. Publishing on all the main platforms would at least add 10% to 45% to sales for a once off cost of about 15 minutes of one person's time per book. The epub uploaded to Amazon can be used everywhere.
Staff isn't the issue. The same files and metadata can be used. It doesn't take long for one person.
Yes, a lazy business decision to help make Amazon a monopoly.
There is a separate geographical issue with large publishers due to historic agreements between publishers to carve up the world into exclusive zones for English language. This hurts authors and readers. But sometimes even small publishers or indie authors only use Amazon and inexplicably only North America.