My thanks to those who commented on my last post. I have now unpublished both books from Amazon, although Amazon won’t delist them on the grounds someone might want to sell them second-hand through their platform. I can’t do anything about that.
I will shortly re-publish The Night Bus, probably on Lulu, although I haven’t definitely decided on that platform, yet. I’ll do a little more research, first.
As for Making Friends with the Crocodile, I am persuaded to have a go at finding a publisher for it. We’ll see how that goes.
And in the meantime? Writing…
Mick Canning 
Hope the new publishing platforms work out well Mick, not easy to do anything away from the ‘big boys’ these days but must feel much more honest and satisfying.
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Much more satisfying – or perhaps a better word is comfortable. I’m perfectly happy to have less exposure and probably fewer sales.
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Mick, are you okay? In your previous post, you were saying that you didn’t want to be a hypocrite and I understood that very much. Hope you’ll do well at your new home.
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Yes, I’m fine thank you, Nicole. I’d decided that it was ridiculous my not buying things on Amazon as a matter of principle but still using it as a publishing platform for my books. Now I’ve unpublished them from there, all is good! It’s just a case of finding new homes for them.
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If you need anything, let me know. 🤍🤍
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Thank you! That’s very kind!
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I guess I missed reading the reason for unpublishing from Amazon. I guess it must have been uninspiring results.
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No, not at all. It was my dislike of their business practices – tax avoidance and shoddy treatment of their employees. I don’t buy anything through Amazon any more for that reason, so reasoned it would be hypocritical to sell through them.
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oh! I get that. Many feel Amazon is Walmart 2.0
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Just that, yes, Arv.
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The best of luck with your new publisher!
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Thanks, Malcolm. I’ll keep you posted!
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I miss publishing via CreateSpace but they got gobbled up by Amazon awhile back. I’m going to check out Lulu as well… Good luck to us all!
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Thanks, Jan. Although I think CreateSpace were always part of Amazon, even if ostensibly a separate entity (I could be wrong, of course.).
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It’s not an easy world outside the big boys of the oniine world, and they’re all complicit in so much that is going wrong around us. I hope smaller publishers leave you more satisfied, even if sales/exposure aren’t that high.
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That’s the plan, Himanshu. I’m not pretending I’m going to change anything, but I don’t want to be complicit.
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Will go back and see what the beef with Amazon is, as I hadn’t read that post.
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Capitalism’s ugly face…
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These posts caught my attention. I have one novel on Amazon. I plan to direct publish 2 more within the year. Initially, I thought Amazon was a publisher but now understand fully that they are simply the best known platform. Ambivalent about using them again but feel stuck there.
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I Understand feeling stuck, since they obviously have a huge reach. I just decided I’d rather go with a platform without their track record of tax avoidance and employee abuse.
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Sound reasoning.
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