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marina_bonomi

marina_bonomi

May 18 2012, 16:14:57 UTC 9 years ago

Interesting and documented.

These facts and numbers (reported by increasing numbers of former traditionally-published authors), are the reason I don't buy the 'big, bad Amazon bent on ruining poor traditional publishers' counter-articles one sees occasionally around. The ones, for instance, that charge Amazon with enforcing DRM when that is an *option* traditional publishers insisted on and that nobody is forced to implement (see for instance the many indie authors that publish on Amazon *without* DRM).
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

May 18 2012, 17:35:45 UTC 9 years ago

In some ways Amazon offers authors a better deal than conventional publishers, now that it's to the company's advantage. Their earlier self-publishing contracts sucked mightily. And don't forget this is the same company that stole books off of people's Kindles. Large corporations just seem to behave like psychopaths in various ways. With publishing, I try to keep an eye on the variations.

It's a key reason why I favor crowdfunding. You-all are much nicer to work with.
marina_bonomi

Re: Well...

marina_bonomi

May 18 2012, 17:41:53 UTC 9 years ago Edited:  May 18 2012, 17:42:48 UTC

Corporations exist to make money, that's a fact.
As things are, Amazon offers the best deal around, and many other publishers instead that being smart and offer the same thing are just throwing a tantrum, not the best way to serve their own interest, IMO.

As to 'stealing', yes, Amazon deleted from people's Kindles one book that, it came out, shouldn't have been up for sale in the first place, definitely not cool. But what generally isn't said about that debacle is that those people, at least, got their money refounded.