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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.
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That is what I got told by Newcon Press and an indie author when I asked if they were planning to release a title on Kobo. At least the author kindly gave me a review copy of the book (which I must post now I've read it). Another indie author is happy to release on Kobo as well as Amazon (admittedly a few days later). It's possible that some small press publishers have an exclusivity agreement with Amazon in return for a higher %, who knows?
Unfortunately, until publishing monopolies are looked into world-wide, I don't see this being resolved any time soon.