I wouldn't want to see people giving one company hundreds of thousands of books and thinking it doesn't matter, when in fact it does.

Copyright for the most part is an international subject.

They will need to come down from the mountain and start talking to people [eventually].

If the contract is terminated, who owns the rights in the file itself? I'll tell you, it's not you. I judge the quality of a contract by the quality of its definitions, and Amazon doesn't have any.

The dynamics are such that this is going to happen. The sharpest authors will do the sharpest deals.

I was playing out of character. I wasn't playing to my strengths. Now I'm just playing with a little more confidence. I've just got to do what I do.