SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHOR FRIENDSThis *INSANE* email from Barnes & Noble WTF—no more than 100 books and they start deleting??—removing titles that don't meet minimum sales?

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@susankayequinn

"sane people wouldn't publish more than 100 books."

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@mwl

writers: a notoriously sane bunch
self-published writers: writers but without the rules

[kaidenshi@exquisite.social]

@susankayequinn It seems so self-contradictory to me. "You can only have 100 titles, if you try to have more than that we will delete titles. Also you better keep your sales up or we will also delete titles, causing your sales to drop, causing us to delete more titles."

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@susankayequinn @mwl this really fucks with honest authors that actually have a lot of good output!

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@kaidenshi
IT.IS.INSANE

I halfway think this "new policy" was written by AI

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@kkarhan @mwl

and adds insult to injury given that a bunch of the titles they would delete were stolen by AI corps to feed into the slop machine

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

the injury of indie authors being shoved off platforms because AI is sucking up all the storage space after the insult of those very works being stolen by AI corps to feed their slop machine

(D2D and B&N both)

[meyarimcfarland@wandering.shop]

@susankayequinn *sigh* And after I finally, after more than 10 years, got off my butt to load books on B&N. Not sure it's even worth the effort to continue if they're going to pull nonsense like this. >.>

[johntimaeus@infosec.exchange]

@susankayequinn

Well that's Asimov's catalog fecked right to the curb.

[saja@mstdn.social]

@susankayequinn That frustration is very real for many indie authors right now
It raises serious questions about platform priorities, fair access, and how creative work is being used in the AI era.