If they'd only removed the Kindle editions they wouldn't have lost (even more) reader support either. By removing the paper ones they have lost a load of their customers who bought at some othe store instead, and likely won't bother going back to Amazon. Plus, by removing a sixth of their catalogue they really messed up people and sites which use them for reference, gaining even more ill-will.
Basically, yet another Amazon failure and for many it will be one too many.
(I agree with you on the list of things about which the author does and doesn't have control. Many people obviously don't know enough authors and think that the author is responsible for everything. Oh, and to things over which authors have no control you can add "whether the words on the page are what the author wrote". I remember a book by a well-known author which was virtually unreadable, because they had re-typeset it after the final proofs and messed it up...)
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Date: 2010-02-01 11:23 pm (UTC)Basically, yet another Amazon failure and for many it will be one too many.
(I agree with you on the list of things about which the author does and doesn't have control. Many people obviously don't know enough authors and think that the author is responsible for everything. Oh, and to things over which authors have no control you can add "whether the words on the page are what the author wrote". I remember a book by a well-known author which was virtually unreadable, because they had re-typeset it after the final proofs and messed it up...)