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Why I Self-Publish with Amazon

Why I Self-Publish with Amazon

I'm not out here wanting to prop up billionaires, but needs must

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Jun 15, 2025
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Look, anyone who follows me on other socials knows that I think one of the biggest evils in this world are billionaires.

I genuinely think at some point there is a threshold of money owned that just turns people into nasty pieces of work, out for themselves and screw everyone else, at detriment to society, minorities and even the planet itself. Money is the most evil thing man ever created, and that is saying something.

So, why is it that the majority of my books are most easily accessible on a platform like Amazon? Why are a couple even exclusively on there?

Unfortunately, a lot of it comes down to one of the other great evils that those of us wanting to continue to make a living need to do: expediancy. It puts me in mind of that one Matt Bors cartoon…

Credit: Matt Bors at The Nib

(It’s worth noting that until just now, I was only familiar with this panel, but there’s actually four panels to the whole bit.)

If I did not participate in anything that has links to some shady practices, views I disagreed with, or horrible people, I wouldn’t be getting anywhere. Because unfortunately, in this world, the bad guys are in control of the whole thing, and increasingly so by the day it seems.

(Note: there is absolutely a case for ethical buying, and I encourage everyone to act on it wherever possible, but unfortunately, there comes a point where it really comes at an impasse and you have to measure what you need to move forward over what you can do without)

In the case of Amazon, it boils down to a couple of reasons:

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