Will the ease of publishing through Amazon always be so easy? This article Amazon Pulls Publishing Group's Titles by Jeffery A. Trachtenberg (here) suggests that things will get tougher and that they ease of getting stuff out there has peaked.
Don't get me wrong, there are other avenues than Amazon, there are still a ton of ways to get a message (or novel) out to the market, but Amazon's market is so large, it's a tad disheartening to see them being more aggressive it their limitations.
"The move reflects an increasingly fractious book-selling landscape, where retailers are showing a willingness to flex their muscles by dropping certain titles. Last month Barnes & Noble Inc., unhappy about Amazon's attempts to sign exclusive deals with publishers and authors, said it would not sell in its stores any books published by Amazon."
Still as a hopeful author I think I'll be good to go and still have my sights on Amazon and Smashwords in the very near future.
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