Comment by will_work4tears

That's true, but they also are very selective and pay very little of the actual profits to the author. My project will help any author, even those with the standard publisher, but it's really aimed at finding the good writers from the flood of newly "published" authors on Amazon. There's so much noise due to the sheer number of self published authors it's really hard to find anything. It's like the Netflix problem, you spend all your spare time going through looking for something by the time you find it, you don't have free time anymore.