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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go in person to B&N. They have a sections with book lights.

Amazon is so sketchy now because you never know if you’re buying a cheap piece of garbage or something actually made to last. Also, if you love books and have the ability not to shop Amazon, you should. [b]They are destroying publishing and book selling[/b]. [/quote]

Oh, well!

- author who makes more self-publishing on Amazon than with his trad contracts at a Big 3.[/quote]

That's great, but if you're an author, then you're well aware that Amazon is whittling away at your payout rates. If you weren't aware, check in with the author groups. There are some authors on tiktok sharing their strategies for mitigating what's happening.

Also, don't be smug if your eggs are in the Amazon basket. If one of your books get uploaded to one of the pirating websites and the Amazon bots find it, they will freeze your account. If you have a significant following on social media and a successful newsletter strategy, you could probably weather the move to a different platform.[/quote]

This is only for books enrolled in Kindle Unlimted. Mine are not. [/quote]

Now I’m curious about this. Are you self-publishing on Amazon? How did you decide to go that route? Does your old publisher still have your books?

If you could do it all again, would you self-publish from the start? Did your publisher have the support you needed?[/quote]

Some are currently published by a Big 3. I get okay support from them, though I don't keep the lights on for them, so I don't get as much as SJM or someone like that. My agent gets right of first refusal, and if she doesn't want them, I am able to self-publish via Amazon and other distributers. Most of the books she didn't want are in a different genre, and I have a pen name for those (though it's not a secret and my readers know I write under both).

I went this way because finding an agent is exhausting, and I had no desire to do it more than once. Not sure if I would have self-published from the start. Maybe? But it wasn't a thing when I started writing.[/quote]

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