Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program.
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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. π
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. π
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, thatβs very true. One minute the customer thinks theyβve got a good deal from the options available to them. The next thereβs 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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@DavidBridger @susankayequinn I havenβt 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 isnβt often an easy choice. But it is the right choice.
@Broadfork @DavidBridger @susankayequinn
I can't remember exactly when I stopped using Amazon, but it was quite a while back, when I heard about their terrible employment practices. I wasn't going to support a business which penalized their workers for taking breaks (and other relentless, ruthless and callous practices).
I have not regretted it. For books, I go to Fishpond.com.au; and that was the only thing I bought from Amazon anyway.(I wish I could put a permanent setting on all my search engines to exclude results from Amazon; it's a bit annoying to have to add the "-site:" string every time I'm looking for shopping stuff...)
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@mycotropic nope never heard of Lacey
Chuck is enough anyway!
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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 what non-amazon ebook shops do you suggest- looking for those which let me download.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Quando gli altri fanno il danno, vengono sempre da me
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@aeva for me it's the "will it crash bc slop or will the leadership be ousted somehow by their users' hostility"
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Storie di bici eroiche
@ Cyclinside
https://www.svelo.eu/2026/03/02/storie-di-bici-eroiche/4454/
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@aeva Knowing techbros and Polymarket, they'd bet and intentionally fuck it up, on the particular day they all plan to cash out.
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@aeva sadly, X is still up (somehow?)
I fear you can make something extremely bad and also keep it running and even add features if you don't actually care how anything comes out/whether the things you put in do what you actually intend them to do/whether it's safe or easy to use.
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i wonder if there's a betting pool for how long bs can keep going before the slop coders total it
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@prcparma opposizione unita per cacciare meloni
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NO ALLA GUERRA!
NO AL GOVERNO DELLA GUERRA!
Il governo Meloni decide di avvicinare l'Italia al coinvolgimento diretto a fianco di Israele e Stati Uniti nell'aggressione all'Iran.
L'ennesima guerra imperialista rivendicata a nome di un nuovo colonialismo suprematista e razzista.
Il governo Meloni che, per affinitΓ ideologica e servilismo, non ha il coraggio di prendere una posizione autonoma da Trump e Netanyahu, si piega agli interessi dei due padroni. Come ha fatto sui crimini commessi a Gaza.
