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"We all know how much corporate control of the internet sucks. And how much
corporate control of art sucks. Fortunately, it’s easier than ever to support
DIY artists.
Pretty much everyone knows about Bandcamp to support indie musicians, but where
do you go to support authors working outside of Big-5 publishing? Well, you can
certainly buy their books from Amazon, but the best way to support independent
artists is to buy directly from them. This is true for folks like me who have,
for practical or political reasons, rejected the big retailers, but perhaps
even more true for small presses, where the difference between making roughly
70% (check out this page to see how difficult it is to calculate how much
you’re going to make from the sale of an ebook on Amazon) and making roughly
100% is the difference between staying in business and going under.
Small magazines have been especially hard-hit by Amazon’s doing away with
Kindle subscriptions and switching them all to Kindle Unlimited. It’s much
better to buy your electronic version directly from them or from Weightless
Books, where you can get
Lightspeed,
Nightmare,
Clarkesworld,
Interzone, and more.
(Here’s a handy list of lots of places where you can buy ebooks directly from
the author or publisher! Libreture, the site that hosts the list, also offers
lots of free cloud storage for your ebooks!)
Now, you may prefer reading paper. And that’s cool! But if you eschew ebooks
altogether, you’re missing out on a whole world of cool interesting stuff you
could be reading. It’s okay to use both!
But it’s come to my attention that a lot of folks who own Kindle or Kobo
readers, or even folks who use those apps to read ebooks on their tablets or
phones, don’t know how to move books you purchase from places other than Amazon
or Rakuten to your e-reader. Good news! I’m here to help! Below please find a
guide to how to do this on just about any device you can read a book on!"
Via Susan ****
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
