The Amazon Problem: Too Big to Ignore, Too Powerful to Trust

In 2022, the Independent Book Publishers Association started hearing a troubling story on repeat. Established publishers—not fly-by-night operators, but companies with books that had been selling on Amazon for years—were logging into their Kindle Direct Publishing accounts and finding them suspended or terminated. One publisher said Amazon had accused them of copyright infringement over a book they insisted they had every right to publish. Another reported the exact same thing happening to them..