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> Because that's the road Amazon is taking us down, along with all the other companies who make money from distributing rather than creating content.

Disagree. Amazon Publishing is notorious for putting more money in the author's hands/pocket than a traditional publishing house. I'll take cheaper books and having to spend a bit more time finding what I'd like versus to the alternative future publishing houses would prefer (continuing to squeeze profits out of fewer readers while keeping more of the profit for themselves instead of the author).




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