Just spent an hour trying to find an independently published science fictoin book on the kindle...
You do a search on "science fiction" and go from high to low and you get books selling for $100 which are text books on SF. You go from low to high and you get books that don't cost anything - which means they're published by well-established publishers who have a deal with Amazon to allow them to give their books away from free - freezing out those independent publishers who'd like to offer their books for free to get some readers, too.
(I know this because I'd intended to offer The Coldest Equations: The Labyrinth Makers for free, in order to tweak people's desire to buy The Coldest Equations: The People Out There, only to be unable to do so because as an independent publisher, we're not allowed to do it!)
So I'm fed up for the day, and therefore this is not a post about an independently published sf book, but rather a rant about the incompetence of Amazon.
Will try again tomorrow.
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