Amazon is now limiting self-published, AI authors to no more than 3 books per day. Why are we limiting our most productive minds? {{ LOL }}
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Of all the arts authors have it the worst. There are close to 47k of them in the US. Their titles that sell 1000 copies are something like .0025%? Whatever. 1000 copies might be $2000. Pathetic.
Great for Kindle. No surprise there. People read a lot but 47k authors.
Visual artists are 10 million but most of them make only one image. There are something like 200k that make hundreds even thousands of images. The markup is a lot higher.
There is an unimaginable number of walls in the US for prints and paintings in homes and office spaces.
There is an army of people scamming retirees and hobby authors as well.
The set up is quite simple:
“You’ve always had the dream to write your book. Others have told you how great your story telling is and you’ve always known!”
Now, with AI, WE CAN HELP! Simply pay us first. We’ll coach you on all the steps to easily achieve your dreams as an Author!
Amazon KDP Self Publishing Resources Coaching
$10,000 get’s you your own VIP coach and a 6 week plan to publish an Amazon kindle book within 10 weeks!
This “business” uses their network of scammed people to recommend each other’s titles to bolster reviews and garner higher ranks in market place searches.
The training is likely real in that they do teach you how to use FREE tools to craft language and build volume around your topic. The results (profits) are, as always,… juuuuuuust over the horizon.
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Seems that Winston Smith is alive, and working at Hoopla.
Went to a lecture last night, at the city of Dearborn public library, about censorship. Most of the content related to censorship in libraries.
I recounted my experience last winter. I went to my local township library to check out a book that I had checked out a couple years earlier, to find the library no longer had that physical book. None of the libraries in their exchange network have the physical book either. The book is now only accessible via Hoopla, an on line book system.
I asked how secure Hoopla is, against the books being changed.
The lecturer didn’t seem to know much about what I was talking about, but a very high level employee of the Dearborn library was in the audience. She said that news broke a couple years ago, about the works of a deceased author, on Hoopla. The copyrights on the works are now owned by a corporation. With the consent of the corporation that owns the copyrights, the on-line versions of the books are indeed being revised. She asked, rhetorically, if they need to keep a 1980s physical copy of the works on the shelf, so people can read what the author actually wrote, rather than the corporate revised version.
At present, when works are revised on line, a new publication date and ISBN number are assigned. We know how laws can be revised, or repealed. TPTB could easily go full “Ministry of Truth” and not assign a new publication date and ISBN code, when a work is revised. Then gaslight everyone who notices the changes “oh, no. it has always said that. your memory is defective”.
Fortunately, I have a physical copy of “1984” in my personal collection.
For those wondering, this is the book I was looking for, that has vanished from library shelves. Doesn’t seem likely to be all that subversive to me.
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Here is an article about the posthumous editing that is going on. Roald Dahl was the author the library official was specifically taking about. The official reasons for the changes sound benign, but the library official, who is familiar with Dahl’s work, said some of the changes completely changed the meaning of passages.
Revising Classic Novels Spurs Debate About Where to Draw the Line - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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Some of you may remember that hocus character on TMF from decades ago. He spent at least $10,000 self-publishing a book and then hired publicists to get himself quoted on ABC News and various newspapers as a retirement and financial advisor. I believe he also paid $99 to some guy on Amazon to write a favorable review of his book. (I think he only sold about ten of them outside of his family.)
I see that Amazon has removed that one positive, paid-for review.
Though decades later he’s still at it online.
https://www.passionsaving.com/
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Yep. I just had a thought. If that whole conversation took place today, we might think it was an AI on the other side (specifically programmed to be contrary) rather than a human.
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Holy crap! That was wild! He’s still yammering about the exact same stuff 20+ years later. That’s a long time to hold a grudge.
From his blog:
Stocks have been mispriced for 28 years, with the exception of a few months in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. That’s been bad for each and every one of us.
According to DQYDJ stocks are up approximately 1300% since 1996.
I don’t recall my Hoco-Lore very well anymore, but I believe Hocus went to TIPS in the early 2000s, maybe before that. If so, he missed out on life-changing gains.
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I think hocus was promoting some kind of market timing strategy with a guy who eventually died of lung cancer (John Walter Russell), except that the strategy never seemed to signal when it was time to move into stocks.
https://www.passionsaving.com/early-retirement-planning.html
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