After reading various blogs and new reels on how Amazon is working its way into the publishing racket, I've decided that while I'm proponent of Indie bookstores and everything they stand for, and I love them to pieces by the way, I might as well try to hop on Amazon's train to see if they'll become my publisher.
Granted, my book, Stress Test is currently available on Amazon and it's published through their affiliate, Create Space. But this is me doing everything on my own because I wanted to see what the feedback would be on my first full length novel, and it's been great. I was thinking, I probably won't make much with this debut, and I've been reading that it would be hell to get a traditional publishing house to sign you, I basically wanted to get my story out there, to entertain, and that it has. Now I'm thinking, it's time to take the next step. Even if Amazon doesn't do much advertising, at least I'd have an actual publisher to relinquish some of the work I would have to do, ie: formatting, corrections, etc. Of course, I'm not completely sure that they would even do this, it's something I'll have to research, but what harm could come from submitting my manuscript to see if they'll pick me up? After all, I'd like to think that I've got the potential to make money someday.
On the other end of the spectrum, Amazon might as well be The Man and said Man might be keeping me down. They're throwing their weight around to put a lot of publishing houses, out of business, and of course, potentially book stores, which I don't agree with. I love walking into a book store, specifically the aforementioned Indie stores and getting lost within the stacks to see what kind of gem I can find. I'll even wander around a Barnes & Noble for a while, but those Indie stores really have my heart. I'm not looking for those stores to get shut down, I'm not looking for the traditional print books to disappear, lost to e-Books. In an ideal world everything would remain as-is, but if being affiliated with Amazon to get my name out there, and get me known without having to deal with a traditional publishing house who wouldn't work much for me once a book is published is what I have to do, then so be it.
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