Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Mar 4

Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.

I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links

#writing #publishing #selfpublishing

Show threadDavid BridgerMar 4
@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.
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Mar 4
@DavidBridger I respect that choice, but yeah, it's brutal.
Show threadDavid Bridger
@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.
Mar 4 at 10:57pmWeb