The real issue here is that it likely costs much less to print these books yet customers are paying expecting an actual normal quality print. Amazon has used purchasing power to dominate book sales and now it’s driving up profits by cutting costs on book production.
Personally I switched to ebooks a while ago, and not Amazon (I have a Boox reader, which is Android based, and buy epubs from other stores such as ebooks.com and also read public domain books from Project Gutenberg). Less wasteful (no book printing, no delivery) and avoids Amazon. I also use my local library.
The real issue here is that it likely costs much less to print these books yet customers are paying expecting an actual normal quality print. Amazon has used purchasing power to dominate book sales and now it’s driving up profits by cutting costs on book production.
Personally I switched to ebooks a while ago, and not Amazon (I have a Boox reader, which is Android based, and buy epubs from other stores such as ebooks.com and also read public domain books from Project Gutenberg). Less wasteful (no book printing, no delivery) and avoids Amazon. I also use my local library.