Mines the recent major price reduction in bestselling books at Amazon by as much as 65% and speculates about the reasons for the move.
From the authors' perspective, the situation appears grim. As it stands, making a living as an author is extremely difficult despite trends towards independent publishing. Amazon has its fingers in that market as well, and the model it is building appears to be a monopoly, where authors will become essentially employees of Amazon.
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