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That is truly a terrible idea, and Amazon should be liable since they do exercise control over what they sell (which I know, because I have two books for sale there).
I've done the same with several listings for grills that have galvanized grates. Nothing ever happened. Amazon really doesn't care.
ooh can I ask what books? I'm just curious 😅
But if I tell you, I doxx myself :)
Ah the balancing act of marketing one's stuff online and potentially outing yourself online
This is why you should always have a multitude of alt accounts for different reasons
Ie FarceMultiplier and FarceDivider, where FarceDivider is used to build a specific public facing image for when you talk about your book, and FarceMultiplier is used for shit posting.
That's not a bad idea. I'll message you with a link. Won't be Amazon, but what I'll send you is there as well. I make zero money from Amazon sales. It's a terrible platform for minor authors.
Mind if I ask what a better option would be? Looking to release some work myself in the next year and was going to start looking at which options would be best.
Since my books are for TTRPGs, selling on DriveThruRPG has been better by far. I've made hundreds of dollars from there and under $10 on Amazon. Amazon tricks authors by allowing them to publish there then pushing those authors to pay to advertise their own books...which I did, but made zero difference. I'm also on Barnes and Noble, but made no money at all there.
However, as an author I've used their services to print copies of my books to put in games stores and that's been very cost effective and made me decent money.
Nice, some of my material is also ttrpg related so that's especially helpful haha Thanks!
I love DriveThruRPG for grabbing RPG books, I’m super happy to know it is better for the author!