We do have authors on FR whom Amazon regularly gives away works of for free.
I have researched this enough to know it is widespread and there is a button Amazon has to turn off or turn on about sales of certain author’s books or they say it can’t be shipped for a long period of time to encourage buyers to get something else, a lot are Hatchette authors ( and I don’t personally know any Hatchette authors but I sympathize with them)have been under attack for a couple of years now.
In 2005 Amazon moved their main offices to Luxemburg across the pond to prevent paying US taxes, and they owed 6 billion dollars at one point, that’s why O Drama can jerk them around and get them to do his bidding...he held that one speech at their Warehouses in 2012 or 2013.
When I heard Amazon was going to send drones to deliver to people, I thought ‘NO’ that could be dangerous the way the government could take control of drones, sheesh....but that was somehow postponed or squelched for mean time.
I want Penquin-Randam House to surge forward, as they are the closest competitor to book and e book sales in competion with Amazon, and at least P-R are decent according to authors I have read.
The only one I've heard of there is Matt Bracken… and he was the one I heard about it from [link to his announcement].