There are many excuses, Maria, but most of Amazon's moves come down to bullying the market (you know about the Booksurge imposition on PoD, for instance and the way the Kindle 'works'?). And if anyone has problems with small-beer payments, come to me. I'll send ebooks free of charge from our own wee indie site (
www.bewrite.com). All we do is to inconvenience a few electrons. Hoots. Neil