Anonymous #2 11w

though if you’re not paying for KU and you know you like ebooks, as long as you’re okay with supporting Amazon, there’s really no drawback

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Anonymous #2 11w

Wait what’s wrong with amazon? I’m already paying for ku but rn I’m just on the three months free trial deal

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Anonymous #1 11w

I was only thinking of buying it bc you can download more books on there where as on my phone the app only lets me take out like 10-12 books at a time and sometimes I like downloading them in the order I wanna read them

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Anonymous OP 11w

Amazon made Jeff bezos a billionaire by treating its workers like dogshit (underpaying them, putting their literal lives in danger. iirc last month a bunch died in a tornado cuz they weren’t allowed to evacuate). Amazon thrives off of out competing small businesses, especially indie bookstores (Amazon was originally an online bookstore)

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Anonymous #2 11w

they sell books at a loss in order to take competition away from brick and mortar stores who can’t afford to sell books at loss (because that’s their entire model) but it’s almost guaranteed that if they succeed in creating a book monopoly they’ll jack prices back up

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Anonymous #2 11w

they’re already lowk doing that with audiobooks and ebooks- they pay authors below industry standards and punish authors who don’t exclusively release their works with Amazon (authors have had Amazon refuse to sell their books when people have pirated them and sold them at b&n). just altogether shady. supporting local businesses if you can afford it is just better imo. supports the local economy too

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