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That sucks. My advice as a content creator is to never put too much weight into one platform. When you write books, try KDP, try traditional publishers, try sel

That sucks. My advice as a content creator is to never put too much weight into one platform. When you write books, try KDP, try traditional publishers, try selling direct on a website. When you make videos, use YouTube but also try making a course on Udemy and do direct tutoring. Sign up for Substack and Patreon. Spread it out, fight it when you can, and move on when you can't. Some people have had this sort of thing happen with their YouTube also.

pandemic_region 2y ago
Reminds me of Dr. Disrespect getting his insanely popular Twitch account banned all of a sudden. Hard days when the thing you've been trying to grow meticulously for years goes poof overnight for no clear reason and no clear path to appeal.
- voidUpdate 2y ago
  I mean, if I've understood the story correctly, there was a very clear reason
  - pandemic_region 2y ago
    It seems this was made public only very recently, my bad. > On June 25, 2024, Dr Disrespect confirmed that the reason for his Twitch ban was a result of him sending DMs to a minor through Twitch whispers, and that the ban served in 2020 was a result of those actions.
vidarh 2y ago
The problem is KDP is the 500 pound Gorilla for self pub, and traditional publishers only publish a vanishingly small proportion of works. If you want to make a career out of it, sure try trad first. You're almost certainly not going to make it. If it's a hobby, or you don't get through the needle at a trad publisher, you leave the majority of income on the table if you get locked out of KDP unless you're in a niche and already have direct access to a large portion of your readers. E.g. if you're writing tech books about an OSS project you're at the core of, you can probably do fine without KDP. If you write fiction, being without KDP will make things 10x as difficult. This does not mean I disagree with you. In principle you're right. Just pointing out that in the general case KDP is such a big factor for writers that for most it will habe a lot of weight. There's a reason they get away with KDP Select (exclusivity for Amazon) to include you in Kindle Unlimited, for example: It takes very little KU income to outweigh all other e-book sales channels for a lot of self published authors. I've just removed my two novels from it, not because I think I'll earn more that way, because I don't, but because I agree it's worth diversifying - in my case more because I've decided I earn little enough from it that I can afford to make it more about principle and maybe contributing in some tiny way to reducing Amazons dominance.

pandemic_region 2y ago

Reminds me of Dr. Disrespect getting his insanely popular Twitch account banned all of a sudden. Hard days when the thing you've been trying to grow meticulously for years goes poof overnight for no clear reason and no clear path to appeal.

voidUpdate 2y ago
I mean, if I've understood the story correctly, there was a very clear reason
- pandemic_region 2y ago
  It seems this was made public only very recently, my bad. > On June 25, 2024, Dr Disrespect confirmed that the reason for his Twitch ban was a result of him sending DMs to a minor through Twitch whispers, and that the ban served in 2020 was a result of those actions.

vidarh 2y ago

The problem is KDP is the 500 pound Gorilla for self pub, and traditional publishers only publish a vanishingly small proportion of works. If you want to make a career out of it, sure try trad first. You're almost certainly not going to make it. If it's a hobby, or you don't get through the needle at a trad publisher, you leave the majority of income on the table if you get locked out of KDP unless you're in a niche and already have direct access to a large portion of your readers. E.g. if you're writing tech books about an OSS project you're at the core of, you can probably do fine without KDP. If you write fiction, being without KDP will make things 10x as difficult. This does not mean I disagree with you. In principle you're right. Just pointing out that in the general case KDP is such a big factor for writers that for most it will habe a lot of weight. There's a reason they get away with KDP Select (exclusivity for Amazon) to include you in Kindle Unlimited, for example: It takes very little KU income to outweigh all other e-book sales channels for a lot of self published authors. I've just removed my two novels from it, not because I think I'll earn more that way, because I don't, but because I agree it's worth diversifying - in my case more because I've decided I earn little enough from it that I can afford to make it more about principle and maybe contributing in some tiny way to reducing Amazons dominance.