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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I stopped buying Amazon books about 3 years ago so it didn't impact me.
People simply get used to doing things a certain way and don't want to or think of changing.
As for authors, most stay because Amazon is where they make their money. I emailed an author I like and asked if he use any other stores and he said no it wasn't profitable for him. I told him that I wanted his last two books but I don't buy from Amazon since they no longer allow downloads to my pc. He understood where I was coming from, we wished each other well, and that was that.
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Yes, it's Amazon's anti-competitive exclusivity clause that is the real problem. There is a lot of indie fiction that is only available on Amazon and can only be available on Amazon. I have seen discussions about "going wide" - not using KDP and KU with the exclusivity lock-in - in various places and it seems that it's fairly disastrous to the author's income.
It's a bit of a toxic feedback loop: the readers go there because that's where the books are; the authors go there because that's where the readers are.