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Memes and cremposts about the complete works of Brandon Sanderson.
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Yep, Sanderson is a gem. Broke up a big deal with Amazon because they were price gauging authors. He went shopping around for an alternative to audible, speechify offered him 100% of the royalties compared to audibles 40%. He counter offered to 70% because he thought it was a fair industry standard.
Amazon is taking 60% of the royalties from authors? What the fuck? That's straight up exploitation. So, someone comes up with a completely unique idea, spends years of their life to create it, and Amazon thinks they should get 60% of the money just because they provided a store that practically manages itself as a place to sell it? Fucking, UGH!
That is what they were offering Brandon Sanderson, one of the biggest and most productive authors in science fiction/fantasy. The reason he broke it off was because he realized if they were taking 60% from him, they were murdering smaller authors.
This is extortion. The government should bring them up on charges of racketeering.