Authors are not okay, folks. Between AI destroying the industry and wrecking people's careers, and the big spike in piracy since people decided the solution to boycotting Amazon is *stealing* from people who are literally making *pennies* (21 cents per day... that's what I made in book sales in 2025. I calculated it yesterday), we are not okay.

Please, please, please support authors. If you can buy books in places other than Amazon, please do so. If you can't buy books, please borrow them from your library. Request that your library pick up titles from your favourite authors (most libraries have form you can fill out to do that). Leave reviews everywhere you can. Sign up for author newsletters, and follow authors on social media. Repost social media content. Talk about your favourite books - help other people discover that they exist! All of these things *matter*, and you really have NO idea how much they mean to most authors.

#reading #books #bookstodon #Author

I pulled all my e-books off Kindle yesterday because of this. It effectively ends my writing career because, despite everyone complaining that Amazon is evil... nobody buys books from the many other stores my books are available on.

I am sad. I am angry. I am *exhausted*.

I am ONE indie author. I am nobody. My protest is utterly meaningless in the face of this ever-expanding AI takeover. Unless all indies do this, and all tradpub authors pressure their publishers to fight Amazon, my pulling my books is not going to do a damned thing to make Amazon stop doing this. All it will do is end whatever tiny little chance I might still have had at having a real writing career.

But I am so sick of AI being shoved into every aspect of my life and not even having the right to opt out of it. This is the ONLY protest I CAN make. So that's what I'm doing. And at least I know they won't be able to use my books this way.

#books #bookstodon #reading #readingCommunity #AmReading #amazon

writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k…

Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware

In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle.

^{Victoria Strauss (Writer Beware)}

An Amazon AI chatbot that sums up the book you are reading while you are reading it. While trampling over the writer’s rights.

“Ask This Book."

“Your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without disrupting your reading flow.”

Enshittification is too polite a word for all this.

#Books #Bookstodon
#Enshittification #AI

writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k…

Still free shipping from bookshop.org, and support for the indie bookstore of your choice—

bookshop.org/shop/thecityofros…

#Bookstodon #FantasyLit #PDX #UrbanFantasy

Sådär, nu har jag lyssnat klart på Brandi Carlisles bok Broken Horses. Tror det var @LeoR1010 och en bekant i Australien som tipsade om den. Mycket bra, får 5/5 av mig. Plus med ljudboken är att det är hon själv som
läser och dessutom sjunger massor. Alla låtar finns sen även som ett avslutskapitel med bara musik. Rekommenderas varmt!
#books #bookstodon #lgbtq #memoir

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Broken Horses

The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, a…

^Goodreads

Well, I'm thrilled! As far as I know, this is the first instance of a copy of my #book being bought thanks to talking about it on Mastodon!
Now, who fancies being the second?

"Like Douglas Adams for the #Brexit age on acid"

Features cheeky digs at our government & former PM, UK working conditions and treatment of OAPs. All with endless ham baguettes, snarling black dogs and occasional and unexpected useage of the word "anus".

Available at:
beardedbadgerpublishing.com/on…

#bookstodon