I'm still being haunted by this Barnes & Noble article and everyone praising the new policy changes so I just wanted to share another piece about it
This one is about the authors. because no one loves books and readers more than authors. especially not the CEO of Barnes & Noble.
medium.com/turning-pages/barne…
Barnes & Noble’s New Policy Harms Authors | Turning Pages
Following a Twitter controversy, readers and authors were shocked to discover that Barnes and Noble has a new nationwide policy. Only the top 1-2 children's books per publisher per season will be sold in stores.Marie Kester (Turning Pages)
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in reply to amanda 📚 bookishbrews.com • • •It's not fair to say that "businesses never have the people in mind" and it's not true. B&N is in emergency crisis mode right now. There is a real risk that B&N won't exist as a company in 2024. Think about all the employees up and down the company that will be impacted by that.
And think about the marginalized authors that will now be even more vulnerable to the whims of Amazon's black-box algorithms than they already are.