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Walter Jon Williams
Personal blog · walterjonwilliams.netwritingculture
Walter Jon Williams's personal blog at walterjonwilliams.net covers writing and culture. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2016 post about Amazon's anti-scam measures, which one commenter says end up catching hard-working authors rather than scammers. The commenter cites it as an example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The official site of Walter Jon Williams: cyberpunk, space opera, epic fantasy, near-future thrillers and age-of-sail adventure. The journal, the books, and where to start.
What Hacker News says?
This scam isn't victimless. First, it depletes the pot awaiting actual no-shit real hard-working authors who supply a product people want. Secondly, Amazon react by trying to engineer algorithmic anti-scam measures, which end up catching the aforementioned hard-working authors instead of the scammers. For example: http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2016/03/amazon-may-they-cho... (TLDR: Walter Jon Williams is a respect…
Comment linking /2016/03/amazon-may-they-choke-on-my-vomit/
on “Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon”Submitted Dagmar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Year One [of eBook sales] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crowdsource, Please as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
