I regret to inform you that the motley gang of linear thinking helots and malfunctioning bots infesting Amazon are at it again.
And now they’ve gotten back around to setting beloved Mil-Sci fi authors Jason Anspach and Nick Cole in their sights.
Nick broke the news on Twitter.
In case you’re just joining us, he’s right. It has in fact happened before.
And last time, Nick and Jason’s books were vanished from Amazon altogether.
Were these instances of interference with two bestselling author’s business random glitches of the Dead Internet? Deliberate enemy action?
Was one a fluke and the other some kind of punishment from our tech overlords?
There’s just no way to know.
And that itself is part of the punishment.
That’s why these people are agreement incapable, like Nick said.
Because sane people can’t have a meeting of the minds with psychos.
Nick and Jason aren’t alone, either.
KDP has been messing with my popular Combat Frame XSeed series.
For some reason, they’re bundling books into series that don’t go together.
These results come up if you search Amazon for “Combat Frame XSeed”:
Which would be fine if you could buy the books through these links. But when you click on them, you get this:
I’ve talked to Amazon about it, and they said they’d fix it. But both CFXS non-bundles are still live – or rather, dead – on their site.
Again, intentional sabotage?
Who knows?
Unless Jeff Bezos does a heel turn and decides to do a Twitter Files style data dump of his own company’s dirty laundry, odds are we never will.
Lucky for them, Nick and Jason have the resources to set up their own parallel sales channel.
You can get their stuff direct here, by the way.
Nick gets it.
He knows that normal people are up against a fanatical Death Cult that want to die, but they want us to go first.
Maybe these Amazon shenanigans were planned. Or they could result from technocrat bugmen letting their glorified calculators run wild to “evolve” on their own (a key feature of Death Cult eschatology).
The specifics don’t matter.
Either way, the managerial class has embraced a new official religion en masse that’s given them a collective psychotic break.
The people who rule us have lost touch with reality.
They think they know magic words that can transmute biology and propitiation rituals that will change the weather.
You know what else it’ clear Nick gets?
For newpub authors, the Amazon era is over.
It’s past time we reduced or eliminated our reliance on Amazon’s broke platform.
What would be nice would be if some dissident billionaires created parallel services that work as well as the converged megacorps’ used to.
But for now. we do have alternatives that are at least slightly more reliable than KDP.
The rest will come later.
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