Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program.
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@DavidBridger @susankayequinn I haven’t used Amazon for anything in fifteen years.
In the UK they were always undercutting other companies, putting them out of business, while not paying their taxes and offering poor employment terms and conditions to boot.
The right choice isn’t often an easy choice. But it is the right choice.
@Broadfork @susankayequinn I agree 100%.
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@Broadfork @susankayequinn I agree 100%.
@DavidBridger @susankayequinn It can be a hard choice to make when they are the market leader for your line of business so huge credit to you. 💚
As a customer, where possible, I choose who, where and how I spend my money. That and how I vote are two givens in my life.
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Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.
I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links
@susankayequinn bezos is part of the fascist agenda
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@susankayequinn Several years ago, I decided to boycott Amazon. Haven't bought or sold anything there since then. Explained my reasons to my publisher, who agreed to remove all my books from there, and the books I've written since never get put on. It hit my sales like a truck, as I knew it would, and they've never recovered, but for me it was the right thing to do. I'm not claiming any sort of moral superiority here. Everyone to their own path. All I can say is that I sleep better for it.
@DavidBridger I respect that choice, but yeah, it's brutal.
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@DavidBridger @susankayequinn It can be a hard choice to make when they are the market leader for your line of business so huge credit to you. 💚
As a customer, where possible, I choose who, where and how I spend my money. That and how I vote are two givens in my life.
I do think people are, more and more, understanding that their choices in shopping are really holding THEM hostage as well as having all the negative impacts. Finding a way for readers to still be able to get books and work their way off dependency on Amazon is tough... but the environment is ripe for it. Sometimes people just won't leave... until they do. Until there's just one terrible thing too many.
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@DavidBridger @susankayequinn It can be a hard choice to make when they are the market leader for your line of business so huge credit to you. 💚
As a customer, where possible, I choose who, where and how I spend my money. That and how I vote are two givens in my life.
@Broadfork @susankayequinn Thank you. I share those two givens of yours.
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@DavidBridger I respect that choice, but yeah, it's brutal.
@susankayequinn It effectively stalled my career. Not my love of writing for my readers. I've kept going, and my established readers have stayed with me. But commercially it was a head-on collision with a truck.
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Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.
I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links
Bezos is an asshole and I hope that #ChuckTingle takes his awesome library to his own store and makes bank! I'd happily purchase; "Pounded By This Weregroundhog In A Seemingly Endless Time Loop On Groundhog Day " for twice the price if Chuck got it all!
Think I'm making that title up?
https://www.amazon.com/Pounded-Weregroundhog-Seemingly-Endless-Groundhog-ebook/dp/B0GKXF61S9 -
I do think people are, more and more, understanding that their choices in shopping are really holding THEM hostage as well as having all the negative impacts. Finding a way for readers to still be able to get books and work their way off dependency on Amazon is tough... but the environment is ripe for it. Sometimes people just won't leave... until they do. Until there's just one terrible thing too many.
@susankayequinn @DavidBridger Yes, that’s very true. One minute the customer thinks they’ve got a good deal from the options available to them. The next there’s only one offer on the table because the competition has folded or been assimilated.
But sooner or later Empires always fall. And when they do, they crumble quickly.
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Bezos is an asshole and I hope that #ChuckTingle takes his awesome library to his own store and makes bank! I'd happily purchase; "Pounded By This Weregroundhog In A Seemingly Endless Time Loop On Groundhog Day " for twice the price if Chuck got it all!
Think I'm making that title up?
https://www.amazon.com/Pounded-Weregroundhog-Seemingly-Endless-Groundhog-ebook/dp/B0GKXF61S9@mycotropic Chuck Tingle is a national treasure
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Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.
I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links
@susankayequinn I hate this timeline we are in, where fascism is appreciated and promoted on the Internet more than kissing and gender or sexuality expression.
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@mycotropic Chuck Tingle is a national treasure
Are you also into Dan Lacey? https://designyoutrust.com/2019/06/this-artist-makes-a-living-by-painting-celebrities-with-pancakes-on-their-heads/
I discovered both through #SomethingAwful back in the day. I still have a stock of Lacey paintings and I always wanted Chuck and Dan to collaborate!
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Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.
I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links
@andrew @susankayequinn Keep in mind Bezo is no longer the CEO of amazon so you guys can't blame this on him.
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Are you also into Dan Lacey? https://designyoutrust.com/2019/06/this-artist-makes-a-living-by-painting-celebrities-with-pancakes-on-their-heads/
I discovered both through #SomethingAwful back in the day. I still have a stock of Lacey paintings and I always wanted Chuck and Dan to collaborate!
@mycotropic nope never heard of Lacey
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@andrew @susankayequinn Keep in mind Bezo is no longer the CEO of amazon so you guys can't blame this on him.
@sapphireangel you're... you're kidding, right?
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@sapphireangel you're... you're kidding, right?
@susankayequinn @andrew Andy Jassy became amazon president and CEO July 2021.
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Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.
I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links
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@susankayequinn @andrew Andy Jassy became amazon president and CEO July 2021.
@sapphireangel I know I'm just amazed that you think that's important to point out
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@sapphireangel I know I'm just amazed that you think that's important to point out
@susankayequinn @andrew I don't agree with what they are doing, but people need to stop tossing everything at the founder when he's not the one making the decisions now. He was and that can be faulted.
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@susankayequinn @andrew I don't agree with what they are doing, but people need to stop tossing everything at the founder when he's not the one making the decisions now. He was and that can be faulted.
@sapphireangel Bezos empowered Trump, donated to the ballroom, funded the Melania movie, in every way has used HIS AMAZON MONEY to put the people into power who are enforcing Project2025 at every level they possibly can, OF WHICH THIS IS PART. Amazon is absolutely kow-towing to the fascists and Bezos is *making that happen*.
Your "people need to stop"... is an insult at best, at worst, it's making excuses.
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@cwebber From what I can see, and through the connections I share, they're an IT consultancy that focuses on data analysis & visualization, particularly for defense and law enforcement. The people crossover points towards the kind of business I would have avoided working for back when that was my stomping ground... Not quite Palantir-level, but leaning in that direction, it seems.
These firms seem to like ruining good words & literature references.
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@JBinnacle troppo grasso
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@futzle Oh, you’re in luck.
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