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Originally Posted by kennyc
Please provide examples of why you believe Amazon is less willing to work with authors than MacMillian and I will not accept the recent removal of MacMillan titles as an example of negative behavior towards authors as that is not the case it was directed at the publisher not the authors.
Truth is that yes Amazon and MacMillan will both attempt to protect themselves, but the truth is also that the plan from MacMillan is more likely to harm authors (in particular their income) than anything Amazon has done.
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Amazon is a retailer: It is in their best interest to pay as little as possible for the products they sell. Their own self-publishing contract has been analyzed by several authors and is very lopsided against the author. Among other things Amazon has the ability to reduce the sale price to zero, and the author's cut along with it, at a whim.
Amazon and authors have directly opposed interests.
Authors and Macmillan have aligned interests. Both want to make as much money as possible from selling books to booksellers.
It is very much more in Amazon's economic interest to screw authors than it is Macmillan's.
Also, Amazon has a history of using their market clout as a big hammer to force competitors and suppliers to back down and toe the Amazon line: See the lawsuit against the Amazon Bookstore, the Hachette incident, and the requirement that all POD books go through their own printing facility.
Amazon plays rough and always has.