Re:Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her...
by Qwertious on Monday October 05, 2020 @08:04AM
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"I like paying for it so the author gets paid "
I've been thinking about this: If this is the only reason you use an ebook-store (like the Kindle store), this would be fairly easy to create a 100% competitor for - after all, there's no law against creating a site for giving money to your favourite authors!
...and then you could create a plugin/API for embedding a "pay for book" button onto other sites - like pirate book sites, and the ONLY weapon Amazon would have against it would be the legal weapon against the pirate sites!
Also you'd probably want the give-authors-money site to be run by a trustworthy nonprofit.
Re:Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her...
by zem on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:37PM
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i have seen authors asking people not to do this, because it increases the chance that their publisher will see the book as a failure and not pick up another one of theirs.
I've been thinking about this: If this is the only reason you use an ebook-store (like the Kindle store), this would be fairly easy to create a 100% competitor for - after all, there's no law against creating a site for giving money to your favourite authors!
...and then you could create a plugin/API for embedding a "pay for book" button onto other sites - like pirate book sites, and the ONLY weapon Amazon would have against it would be the legal weapon against the pirate sites!
Also you'd probably want the give-authors-money site to be run by a trustworthy nonprofit.