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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And are you aware that many people here are going to be stopping eBook purchases from Amazon.
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At least some anyway!
Other ebook sellers:
Smashwords Store, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play Store, Vivlio, Gardners, Bookshop.org, Tolino & Fable.
Amazon exclusives should be illegal.
A creative work can have an exclusive distributor (but not at expense of carving up "territories"), but exclusive titles isn't like only one supermarket selling Heinz, but like one chain being the only one that has any kind of egg. The KU system also cheats authors compared to UK or Irish Libraries and invades your privacy.
Monopolies are malicious and Amazon has over 90% of English language ebooks in the World and over 80% of USA online paperback sales.
The regulator and tax situations are broken. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ions_by_Amazon
They own Goodreads, Audible and IMDB.
The USA now practically charges them less tax than the CEOs earn and a tiny percentage compared to average workers. The USA now only regulates to the advantage of those in the Administration, not consumers.