Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program.

davidbridger@writing.exchange

@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.

broadfork@mastodon.green

@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.

davidbridger@writing.exchange

@Broadfork @susankayequinn I agree 100%.

broadfork@mastodon.green

@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.

fluffykittycat@furry.engineer

@susankayequinn bezos is part of the fascist agenda

susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@DavidBridger I respect that choice, but yeah, it's brutal.

susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@Broadfork @DavidBridger

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.

davidbridger@writing.exchange

@Broadfork @susankayequinn Thank you. I share those two givens of yours.

davidbridger@writing.exchange

@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.

mycotropic@beige.party

@susankayequinn

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

broadfork@mastodon.green

@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.

susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@mycotropic Chuck Tingle is a national treasure

weirdwriter@caneandable.social

@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.