It’s pretty bad out there when Jane Friedman goes off on GoodReads and Amazon.

I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires).

Quoting the article:

There’s not much that makes me angry these days about writing and publishing. I’ve seen it all. I know what to expect from Amazon and Goodreads. Meaning: I don’t expect much, and I assume I will be continually disappointed. Nor do I have the power to change how they operate. My energy-saving strategy: move on and focus on what you can control.

That’s going to become much harder to do if Amazon and Goodreads don’t start defending against the absolute garbage now being spread across their sites.

I know my work gets pirated and frankly I don’t care. (I’m not saying other authors shouldn’t care, but that’s not a battle worth my time today.)

And that’s exactly what Amazon is counting on. They want you to feel powerless and like you must subject yourself to their arbitrary and unreasonable rules.

To read the rest, click here for the “secret draft link”! 🙂