Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.

I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links

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International academic publishers (like Elsevier) earn big money while limiting the access to research results. This piece is a good summary of that problem.

No country can afford to abandon this system alone, but we should all be working to dismantle it.

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#journals

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