> sidestepping labour regulations The beauty of digital "self" publishing is that there are no labor regulations for Amazon to be side stepping. It's likely th

> sidestepping labour regulations The beauty of digital "self" publishing is that there are no labor regulations for Amazon to be side stepping. It's likely that the Amazon engineers and VPs that made self publishing possible are compensated more highly than their EU / French counterparts. Now, maybe a Kindle isn't manufactured and shipped up to EU/French regulations or norms; but that isn't even directly involved; and I'd suggest that some of the traditional publishers do similar side steppings when sourcing or delivering hard copies. (And in the case of paper vs digital, there is simply much more labor to sidestep - if for instance, we assume 50% of Amazon's sales will be to existing Kindle owners)