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Give yourself a treat as a reader: stop going to Amazon. There are lots of other ebook stores and physical book stores that don't enable scams, mistreat worker
by WolfeReader 11mo ago
Give yourself a treat as a reader: stop going to Amazon.
There are lots of other ebook stores and physical book stores that don't enable scams, mistreat workers, or do this weird AI junk.
- PessimalDecimal 11mo agoYeah I really need to. I do occasionally go through a bout of trying to take my business elsewhere. I am sort of a used book junkie and Amazon still owns that market. Though I do often get my used books from Alibris when I can. Recommendations for alternatives would be very welcome.
- WolfeReader 11mo agoFor mainstream books, I use Bookshop ( https://bookshop.org https://bookshop.org ) or Kobo. Bookshop supports indie bookstores. Both of them will let you know if a given eBook has DRM or not. (Now, when a book does have DRM, I buy it from Kobo! I'll leave it to the reader to speculate why :) )
- mslt 11mo agoDo you have recs? Particularly where I can buy epub without drm with a fairly rich catalogue across niche and more mainstream writings?
- Semaphor 11mo agoSadly KDP Select makes that impossible. Preferential rates for authors in exchange for exclusivity. There’s a lot of (human) slop there, but enough stuff I want to read.