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Another PSA about Amazon:
They only pay authors 30% in royalties (even if they price above 2.99) when someone buys a book through Amazon COM while not actually living in the US.
That's right. Amazon "steals" 40% of my royalties because the customer is in a different location that the USA.
Why?
Because they can. Because we authors let them get away with that. No other store does this.
Buy direct. Or at least not through Amazon.
Last week, former elementary school teacher Spencer Russell posed a question to parents who follow his Instagram account, Toddlers Can Read: “Why aren’t you reading aloud to your kids?”
The responses, which Russell shared with the Guardian, ranged from embarrassed to annoyed to angry. “It’s so boring,” said one parent. “I don’t have time,” said another. One mother wrote in: “I don’t enjoy reading myself.”
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
‘It’s so boring’: Gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids - and educators are worried
Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behindAlaina Demopoulos (The Guardian)
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It's tiiiiime! This is the longest book reading video to date, and it's finally done 
Listen to it to scratch the Elder Scrolls autism itch or just to fall asleep to~
[The Great War]
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If you like it and/or want to help me survive, ko-fi monthlies help me buy food for me and my cats and I appreciate every one a ton 
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This recording was honestly frustrating as hell to get recorded because of environmental factors leading to somewhere between 30+ discarded takes, but it was worth it, and I can't wait until tomorrow comes so I can work on the next one 
Thank you all for supporting me so far, and I hope you like the reading~ 
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As you will know I'm no stranger to typos, so this cartoon goes out to anyone who sent me a massage about a typo in a post (as always thanks for your help, much appreciated) bit also to my Mastodon friend @h4890 who will appreciate this on a Saturday morning.
#Libraries #libertarianism #reading #books
The lovely librarians at the Seattle Public Library have put together a list of books "centering transformative thought and action ideas around creating social change." It's split into two parts, here's the first:
#books #reading #libraries #SPL @bookstodon@a.gup.p
seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/l…
The Path Forward, Part 1 — a staff-created list from The Seattle Public Library
Resource texts centering transformative thought and action ideas around creating social change. Created December 2024 by DTH Adult Services Librarian. Annotations from NoveList Plus, unless otherwise attributed.The Seattle Public Library
Bookshop.org is now selling ebooks
Up to 100 percent of the profits will go to indie bookstores.
engadget.com/mobile/tablets/bo…
#books #bookstodon #reading #bookstore #ebooks #indiebookstores
In case you missed it, the Fediverse has an alternative to Amazon's Goodreads called BookWyrm, which is a social reading platform.
Existing Goodreads users can import their data into BookWyrm.
BookWyrm's entry on fedi.tips is now updated with common questions answered:
➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…
Also see BookWyrm's official website at:
...and follow their official account at:
➡️ @bookwyrm
#BookWyrm #Books #Reading #GoodReads #Alternatives #Fediverse
BookWyrm: A social network for people who enjoy reading | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Wonderful to know. #NewHere & learning something everyday 😇
Here are my #audio files, #reading #poetry I love: by Rilke, #Rumi, Frost, Dickinson & many others!
m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababid…
I hope someone enjoys these ✨
#poetrycommunity #meditation #spirituality #introduction #introductions
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If you love books, the best part of the Fediverse is probably @bookwyrm, a GoodReads-style social reading network.
More info and sites to sign up on are at:
Because it uses the same ActivityPub protocol that powers the rest of the Fediverse, you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc.
For example, the lead developer of BookWyrm has an account at @mouse
#Fediverse #FediTips #BookWyrm #Books #Book #Literature #Novels #Fiction #NonFiction #Reading #GoodReads #Alternatives
Join Bookwyrm
BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.joinbookwyrm.com
BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's GoodReads, letting you review books, share reading lists, discover new books and interact with other readers. You can follow at:
➡️ @bookwyrm
The website is at joinbookwyrm.com
There are lists of instances to join at joinbookwyrm.com/instances and fedidb.org/software/bookwyrm
You can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc, for example @mouse
#BookWyrm #Fediverse #Books #Book #Reading #Literature #ActivityPub #GoodReads #Alternatives
Join Bookwyrm
BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.joinbookwyrm.com