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#WritersCoffeeClub 2/25. How do you feel about Amazon's influence on books & publishing?
Everything about Amazon is bad. When you work with Amazon, you are making a deal with a devil. You are trading some measure of agency for convenience.
It was the same, too, with corporate publishers; Amazon simply amplifies it, brings new tech & new oppressions into its model.
We need to build alternatives.
But that's not simply true of Amazon; that's true of capitalism. Authors are far from exempt from this, mind--but think of what a bleeding edge of capitalism Amazon represents, how it made its Market of Everything by beginning with books (especially cheap textbooks). Think about what Amazon can do with AI.
Then you see that authors ought to stand on the bleeding edge of *fighting back.*
Everything about Amazon is bad. When you work with Amazon, you are making a deal with a devil. You are trading some measure of agency for convenience.
It was the same, too, with corporate publishers; Amazon simply amplifies it, brings new tech & new oppressions into its model.
We need to build alternatives.
But that's not simply true of Amazon; that's true of capitalism. Authors are far from exempt from this, mind--but think of what a bleeding edge of capitalism Amazon represents, how it made its Market of Everything by beginning with books (especially cheap textbooks). Think about what Amazon can do with AI.
Then you see that authors ought to stand on the bleeding edge of *fighting back.*