" Good reasons provided for the very poor functionality involve: bookstores which refuse to hold Amazon titles considering that Amazon can be a direct competitor; incompetence being a publisher (as one New York publisher said about Amazon, "There are actually some things it's going to take to become a publisher. https://maplepublishers.com/blog/what-support-you-can-avail-of-from-maple-publishing-when-self-publishing-a-book/