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  • Amazon Offers All-You-Can-Eat Books. Authors Turn Up Noses.

    06/28/2019 10:39:46 PM PDT · by RArtfulogerDodger · 31 replies
    The New York Times ^ | December 27, 2014 | David Streitfeld
    ...For much of the last year, mainstream novelists were furious that Amazon was discouraging the sale of some titles in its confrontation with the publisher Hachette over e-books. Now self-published writers, who owe much of their audience to the retailer’s publishing platform, are unhappy. One problem is too much competition. But a new complaint is about Kindle Unlimited, a new Amazon subscription service that offers access to 700,000 books — both self-published and traditionally published — for $9.99 a month. It may bring in readers, but the writers say they earn less. And in interviews and online forums, they have...