• @Moonrise2473
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    9 months ago

    How Amazon can think that publishing 3 books a day is acceptable???

    It’s literally impossible to produce 3 books a day, unless it’s something menial like “how to pee, in three simple steps”

    • davehtaylor
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      169 months ago

      Amazon is making their cut. They literally do not care.

      I’ve written reviews and tried to find ways to report listings where people were selling grills with galvanized grates. Cooking on or in something galvanized can kill you. It’s extremely hazardous. But Amazon doesn’t care. Nothing ever happens.

      • P03 Locke
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        39 months ago

        Don’t forget the unsafe electrical plugs, like male-to-male.

        • davehtaylor
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          19 months ago

          Holy shit I didn’t want to believe they’d actually allow that. That maybe they did have some extreme far out line in the sand where they’d do something. And now I’m just totally at a loss

    • @pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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      99 months ago

      I’m surprised they don’t sell “How to Rip off Idiots”, a giant, $500 leather-bound hardcover book with over 1,000 heavyweight blank pages.

      • @Moonrise2473
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        99 months ago

        I think 95% of the books on “how to get rich quick” are essentially variations on the theme “write a guide on how to get rich and sell it to other people”

        I had a friend in high school that every week came with the new “money solution” found on a forum called “warrior”, and he tried to crowndfund as much as possible in the class to pay for it… And in the end was something super simple like “sell this guide to others” or simply stupid like “go outside a stadium during a sport event and set an illegal face painting kiosk” or “do dropshipping on ebay using an Amazon prime trial account”

      • @nyan@lemmy.cafe
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        39 months ago

        While a nicely-bound blank book with heavy paper isn’t worth $500, it isn’t entirely worthless, either. To really rip buyers off, it has to be an ebook or print-on-demand. As has already been demonstrated.

    • ram
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      49 months ago

      Ya, it should be 3 books a week, or even a month, imo.
      I do see how someone could publish 3 books in a day, by releasing a full trilogy all together. But beyond that, you really are only looking at people making utter garbage.

    • @upstream@beehaw.org
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      39 months ago

      If you are publishing an existing catalogue, sure, but yeah.

      Implicit trust is a horrible idea for something like this.