Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing has benefited many authors, but now many small scale authors are beginning to suffer from Amazon randomly cancelling their accounts. Amazon instead of deleting the accounts of click farm scammers, is removing the publishing accounts accounts of hundreds, maybe thousands of small self-published authors who, at one time or another, actually had a book or two bought by a scammer click-farm account. Some people I know who have had this unfair deletion of their accounts and books by the retailer have despaired and quit writing and publishing altogether. Despair This causes me sincere frustration and I’ll share with you my reasons why. Part the First: Over the past 50 years at least professional publishers worldwide have packaged and sold books by millions of authors in different ways depending on where in the world the sale of the books were made. Book sales areas and pricing were tightly controlled. Many books available in the USA were not (a
Don’t treat parenthood as if it were a ‘THING’. Being a parent is a natural evolving human process throughout a normal life span. Without people with intelligence who are willing to be parents, we will continue to have plenty of children bred by those who are less able, and few or none, by those who are more able. For the survival of our mammal species we need girls and boys in equal numbers. Tinker with that quotient at the risk of everyone. Children are people who will remember often in great detail EVERYTHING YOU DO. They are not pets , nor are they property or inconvenient baggage. Treat children like this at your peril. Your children need to know what their basic needs are: Water, food, shelter, warmth/cooling, companionship. If you don’t teach your children practical skills , you are letting them down. They need to know how to use tools to make things, get food, re-use things, adapt things to the use they want it for. Your kids need to be able to grow food