The bottom
line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet
big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is
mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.
Crab - lovers looking for a silver
lining to this news won't get one: The same effect that allows the bay's blue crabs to grow larger also
mitigates against producing more meat underneath their
bigger shells.