When your business is burgled your preparedness to adapt is essential to survival. We faced destitution when Amazon seized the entire contents of our small publisher’s store. The booksellers continued to sell my commandeered books through agents so added salt to the wounds.
In the late 1970s, the then STAR newspaper described Michael Walsh as ‘Britain’s most dangerous man’. Unless one can identify with the mindset of a far-left journalist it is impossible to figure out why such an extreme expression.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Big Tech censorship says Don’t trust Congress to fix it, Embrace alt-tech. ‘I believe in starting new platforms and I believe the people can solve the (Silicon Valley censorship) problem because we still have the freedom and the ability to do it.’
A fire-starting book falsely claiming authorship by Kyle Rittenhouse, which talks of the ‘holy rage’ of the ‘True Patriot’ and warns that ‘only the sword will prevent our nation’s ruin’, has been on sale through Amazon since shortly after the not guilty verdict in the sensational trial of Rittenhouse.
For the first time in history, book readers are publishers too: Less than 20 years ago we bought newspapers. It never crossed our minds that newspapers could be free. Does anyone buy a newspaper these days?
Imagine, teaching a child to partly insert an electric plug into a wall socket and to then press a coin to the exposed prongs of the electric plug.
Two Amazon employees died within hours of each other at the company’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama last month after being denied sick leave, according to workers’ rights group More Perfect Union. The two workers collapsed and died on November 28 and 29, within hours of each other, with one passing away at the facility and another after receiving medical attention.
When an author historian suffers years of ambushes set by Amazon it makes publishing books a challenge. When Amazon’s coup de grâce is to close the author’s account one imagines smugness on the spotty faces of cancel-culture vultures lurking in Silicon Valley as they remove his life support apparatus.
Few writers are under any illusions as to their chances of their book becoming a blockbuster. Amazon pays from 10 cents to $3 per book sale. Amazon doesn’t promote books; you do.
Nauseating hypocrisy, Silicone Valley corporations like Amazon online retailers stand accused of treating its workers worse than plantation slaves. Google is under investigation for mistreating its black female employees, according to members of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DEFH). The agency reportedly just a few token Blacks they employ received formal complaints about harassment.
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