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And those promotions should be a cost of Amazon, not the authors. Weird how Amazon can take your product, sell it for a quarter of the price, and then claim they now owe you no money.


Audible's whole business model is to sell monthly credits on subscription for $15, which can be used to purchase any audiobook. That's not a "promotion", that's how Audible works.

Now they do also have sales where they sell books for like $5 or something; if those sales are not opt-in, of course that's a problem. But I have a hard time believing they're not opt-in.


Eh, a company should be free to offer any bad deal they can dream up.

If you don't like it, your job is to turn down that offer.


> If you don't like it, your job is to turn down that offer.

Sure, and disappear, because you're not listed by the bad deal company that has container-ships-of-money for marketing.


Nobody is forcing you to work in that particular industry.

And you can put your spoken word content on eg Spotify or Youtube, too. There is competition.




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