The Great Amazon Debate: A Leading Amazon Critic and a Self-Publishing Rock Star Try to Find Common Ground

After I wrote a piece calling self-published authors who defend Amazon "no better than Ayn Rand libertarians," I received a flood of social media high-fives from those within publishing, their frustration with the giant palpable. I also received fierce blowback from the self-published community. The most thorough and entertaining came from Joe Konrath, who has self-published 24 novels (three of them No. 1 Amazon sellers), hundreds of stories, and has sold over 3 million copies of his books.

He, in turn, received a flood of digital high-fives from the self-publishing community for his zingers