How do I Hate Thee, Amazon? Let Me Count the Ways. The technology I’m about to discuss will inevitably blow Amazon out of the creative content market, and the list below, of how awful Amazon is to content creators, is why it’s going to happen so much faster that the tech alone would dictate… As a self published writer and audiobook producer for five years now, I’ve seen every ugly trick Amazon has up their sleeves. They’ve finished their Walmart-ization of the ebook publishing industry, luring us all in with absurdly high KU royalties for exclusivity, destroying all competing platforms, and then, just like Walmart, saying to their suppliers, “We’re the only game in town now, so we’re cutting the price we pay you and you can like it or… well, go out of business.” But there’s hope for us, not in the form of a new website, but a new technology, one that’s as truly “disruptive” to old content provision models as Amazon itself once was to shopping. I became
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