> "either give us specical/exclusive rights or we won't sell your book" Amazon thinks of themselves as a publisher now, so when you put your book on Amazon wi

> "either give us specical/exclusive rights or we won't sell your book" Amazon thinks of themselves as a publisher now, so when you put your book on Amazon without publishing via them they view you as 'the competition' using their hard won resources. As a publisher, they view asking for exclusive rights to be a normal course of doing business. The problem is that some people still think they're just a book store.