Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱1d ago

SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHOR FRIENDS
This *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.

Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱1d ago

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)

Show threadMisWiredKE1d ago
@susankayequinn this is going to suck since I earn nowhere close to the $100 and I suck at marketing myself
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱1d ago
@MisWiredKE I am outraged so much about this -- both B&N and D2D but D2D literally built their entire business on indies but they're really no better than the average scammer out there now
Show threadMisWiredKE1d ago
@susankayequinn yeah. I honestly joined D2D because it was an option to KDP that wouldn't require me to have upfront investment, especially for physical copies. But now I think just keeping it digital and hoping people join my Patreon is a more viable option.
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@MisWiredKE whereas for me, every other week, I'm considering going entirely to print-only because I'm tired of my ebooks being pirated, fed into AI, and all the bullshit of the distributors and retailers shoving AI into my books
Apr 15 at 5:40pmWeb