Post B5K2vlSTJcfwAbcp9c by kelleynnn@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #B5IlyOnQ8WJqNI8O8m by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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       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?What the hell? I've been publishing since 2011... I have 145 titles. AI deluge screwing us but still...it's war on indies.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5IlyOzTPhxayfm0vY by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @susankayequinn "sane people wouldn't publish more than 100 books." :flan_eyeroll:
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ImSWLKdpmeT7MKhc by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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       @mwl writers: a notoriously sane bunchself-published writers: writers but without the rules
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K2vlSTJcfwAbcp9c by kelleynnn@mas.to
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       @mwl @susankayequinn I enjoyed a marketing preso by a young author with over 100 titles on Amazon just this weekend. Authors need to produce that much to stay afloat.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K85Wh9Yj5T37xywC by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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       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)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K85XCLgk2absYtYu by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @susankayequinn heard from three different folks: the B&N 100-book limit doesn't apply to long-time prolific authors. Contact support.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K8bbo05tOSALT2Fk by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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       @mwl I have already done so! But that's good to hear... but also not? What about the upcoming prolific authors? Maybe it won't have the impact on new authors (hello that could be their future revenue!) that the D2D stuff does, but what about minimum sales? How is an author supposed to get STARTED? Is it like some kind of Book Hunger Games now that if you don't make X sales (which of course they don't specify!) out of the gate, they'll pull your books!It's just nuts.(but thanks for the info!)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K8nGWz1ANJew49bc by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @susankayequinn I suspect retailers and aggregators will need to judge between AI and humans.Which will end... poorly.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K8zTqJLodEQ5vmKW by StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com
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       @mwl @susankayequinn As a short-run strategy, the only thing I can think of as mitigation is what @mwl and some others are already doing:  Diversify, build fans, sell directly whenever possible, encourage doing something other than exclusives with giant corps that don't have your interests in mind.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K9LIKWpq8b5KT08O by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @StevenSaus @susankayequinn A creator's only safety lies in business disintermediation. Highly recommended.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5K9Y7nlI6teCDG4Zc by StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com
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       @mwl @susankayequinn And federation when it comes to online stuff.  Yup.