Mark! What a great surprise to wake up to! And a very eloquent summary of my book. And yes, as far as I know, Amazon is the only online distributor of self-published books--would that it weren't so.
Your experience in Vermont is very interesting and matches my feeling from my hometown of Cumberland. There aren't enough people to just talk with the ones you agree with. I found much more diversity of opinions and more local involvement there than when I went to Philadelphia for college or California subsequently. If backed by an economic system, there's no limit to what they could do.
I should add that there is at least one other company where you get self-published books printed: Lulu. I have no experience with them, except that I bought Simon Elmer's book on Covid fascism from them.
Thanks, Mark, I checked them out. I actually have a printer I like, if I wanted to figure out all the e-commerce apps like Shopify and set up a website for it. I even have A2020Vision.org reserved and ThirdParadigm.org, which had my radio show before my hosting service lost it. But calculating state tax and shipping, and getting into doing my own distribution seems exhausting.
For global distribution, they go through other retailers like Amazon. So to make the $9 profit I make now, I'd have to raise the rate to $47 or keep it the same and make $1.75.
So the only option where they'd make sense is for US-only sales through their store for the handful of people who refuse to buy from Amazon on principle.
I don't know if you've seen my latest post on vegetarianism but, in a way, it seems similar--the idea that being a purist in our consumer choices is a virtue that will change the world, or at least make us innocent while it goes to hell in a handbasket.
I'm not certain that's the right audience for my book, which basically says we're all complicit and that only by changing the system can we create ethical choices.
Mark! What a great surprise to wake up to! And a very eloquent summary of my book. And yes, as far as I know, Amazon is the only online distributor of self-published books--would that it weren't so.
Your experience in Vermont is very interesting and matches my feeling from my hometown of Cumberland. There aren't enough people to just talk with the ones you agree with. I found much more diversity of opinions and more local involvement there than when I went to Philadelphia for college or California subsequently. If backed by an economic system, there's no limit to what they could do.
May I repost this on my stack?
I should add that there is at least one other company where you get self-published books printed: Lulu. I have no experience with them, except that I bought Simon Elmer's book on Covid fascism from them.
Thanks, Mark, I checked them out. I actually have a printer I like, if I wanted to figure out all the e-commerce apps like Shopify and set up a website for it. I even have A2020Vision.org reserved and ThirdParadigm.org, which had my radio show before my hosting service lost it. But calculating state tax and shipping, and getting into doing my own distribution seems exhausting.
For global distribution, they go through other retailers like Amazon. So to make the $9 profit I make now, I'd have to raise the rate to $47 or keep it the same and make $1.75.
So the only option where they'd make sense is for US-only sales through their store for the handful of people who refuse to buy from Amazon on principle.
I don't know if you've seen my latest post on vegetarianism but, in a way, it seems similar--the idea that being a purist in our consumer choices is a virtue that will change the world, or at least make us innocent while it goes to hell in a handbasket.
I'm not certain that's the right audience for my book, which basically says we're all complicit and that only by changing the system can we create ethical choices.
Sure, feel free to repost (I don't even know how to do that!).
Well that didn't work out quite the way I thought. It puts the link into Notes. But I'll link it in the next episode.
I think it's that recycling symbol at the top ;-)