Authors — Amazon is cutting down on its holiday season orders from publishers

What does that mean? It means less exposure for authors and less sales for small and independent publishers who know readers automatically turn to Amazon for the majority of their books.

You can help. Buying direct from publishers will help authors and small presses in a big way. And while Amazon has cut down on the amount of orders it’s making from publishers (down from 70% to 20% in some instances), this is an even better time to really support authors and make sure you purchase their books direct.

Authors usually get a much higher royalty percentage from direct purchases than from a sale made from a third party distributor like Amazon.

Our community will thrive if we support each other in the right way. If a book isn’t available on Amazon it doesn’t mean that book doesn’t exist.

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