Amazon has been good for all authors, best - selling and non, self -
pub and partner
pub, because, for a few, A) Amazon helped replace part of the wholesale market, which shrank in the 1990's, and really helped open up online book - selling; B) Amazon has increased international publishing by expanding into numerous
countries, allowing more international authors to hit the big
English markets,
English authors to hit new markets and transnational publishers to do multi-country launches more easily; C) by launching the Kindle, Amazon juiced the small e-book retail industry into a much larger, fast - growing market, which helped replace mass market wholesale sales, etc..
The best place to stay in town, the seven - room Pelican Inn, is modeled after an
English country inn;
pub dishes like bangers - and - mash are big hits on the California - British menu.