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I know you probably don't have the option since it's part of the publishing contract, but if you could, would you opt out of being listed on Amazon and just sel

• InsideOutSanta 2y ago
  This is something that regularly comes up in discussions between authors and my publisher, but the reality is that not being on Amazon hurts books. Amazon has essentially a monopoly on book sales. If you're not on Amazon, it hurts your reviews on other sites like Goodreads, which in turn decreases sales on the few other outlets that still exist. What my publisher does is sell books on Amazon, and then put a page in it to tell people to please buy the next book directly on the publisher's site. They believe that this is overall the least bad option.
  • carlosjobim 2y ago
    Is that true? I see book shops in every town. As for e-books, distribution of these small files cannot be too much of a technical challenge. I think it wouldn't be too difficult to make a system for authors to sell their e-books and physical books themselves on their own websites, but the problem is that authors would rage with fury for paying an upfront cost or paying 10% for such a system, and instead stay with the publishers to rip them off instead. You see this in every industry.