You must be one of those ‘entitlement people’ always wanting something for free or almost free...because authors spend months or years writing a quality book, and there are costs beyond just publishing or e book publishing, it takes hundreds of hours to proof read and edit a book.
Of course, Amazon and some of the others don’t even believe in copyrights, because they can’t make as much money as fast as they want to donate to their liberal candidates, the greedy, blood sucking pariahs.
AS for Amazon’s author petition....roflmto. Yes, you got your Kindle/Amazon e mail with all it’s explanations and promises that were crap...just crap. You may be an employee of Amazon, and you get free books on your Kindle at the expense of someone who spent a long time trying to give you quality.
Oh you can buy all the sleaze you want at $1.99 or 99 cents, so you think authors should write for free or almost...yeah right, go on with your entitlement to other peoples property for nothing. Food stamps anyone?
It’s the new world we live in.
I have people (not even biting) who want you to have a BEE and want to pay $10 the hour.
Quite insane.
Can’t remember the last time I downloaded a FREE book.
Are you aware that last year, Apple, Hachette, and other big publishers were found guilty by a Federal judge of collusion to set ebook prices artificially high in a price-fixing scheme?
And it was not ‘Amazon’s’ petition. It was done by a group of Amazon authors, like Hugh Howey, Russell Blake, JA Konrath, and others, who have sold MILLIONS of books on Amazon. Just as the Hachette petition was done by their authors.
I have a close friend who is a New York Times Best Selling author who sells on Amazon. He sells his ebooks for $3.99 and has sold multi-hundreds of thousands of copies, and now a Hollywood production company has shown interest in one of his books.
So much for ‘crap’.