A cool feature of amazon is that if you have a book coming out, & you don& #39;t direct people to them, then if they don& #39;t get a certain number of pre-orders, they won& #39;t honour any orders that have already been placed thru them & your book goes straight to backorder. Very cool.
This is why you see so many authors sending folks to pre-order for amazon. It& #39;s not because we support them, it& #39;s because we basically have to if we want them to stock our books at all, & not cancel pre-orders from people who tried to support us.