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Against Enshitification feat. Cory Doctorow

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How to Stop Feeling Bad for a Publisher

The single largest factor in their books performance is one retailer that accounts for 40 to 60 percent of their print books and something like 95 percent of their ebooks. That retailers also a publisher that competes with them it poaches their authors, offers them unsustainable discounts from them or cross market in ways that they can't so amazon knows which kindle original books sell with which haschett books but haschett doesn't knowwhich haschettBooks sell with which kindle originals. The publishers are in this circumstance that is that is a genuinely terrible circumstance we should not ignore the people they're takingIt out on are writers libraries and people who work in publishing as opposed to amazon because

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