Author -- Amazon Won't Make You a Whore If They Can Make you a Slut

A whore makes you pay for it.

A slut gives it away free.

Jeff Bezos is crafty -- he wants authors to be sluts...and HE makes pimp money off them.

Amazon has over 100,000 FREE BOOKS for download. Who needs pirating? Nobody needs to ever buy a book. There's plenty for free...

What's the deal?

Authors, like all entertainers, have an ego. They want to be known. Hey, says Bezos, "tell 'em you're on AMAZON!"

That's more prestigious than saying "You can download my book at Smashwords."

"Back in the day," a mediocre writer had to pay for it, and then choose to whore it (pay me for a copy) or be a slut and give it away in order to have any interest at all.

There were two notorious companies, Exposition Press and Vantage, who were willing, for $500 or $1000 or whatever it was, to accept any halfway literate book, give it a little copyediting, and print up a couple of hundred copies. They even took out a small add in the N.Y. Times Book Review to promote the newest titles.

Now? There are a bunch of companies that offer mediocre writers such services as: "formatting your book for upload," "designing a great looking book cover," "getting your book uploaded to Amazon," etc.

Bezos makes his money by having his own Kindle staff who will charge for the services. Bezos makes money by offering the option of a "print on demand" version. Bezos makes money by restricting some bargains to PRIME subscribers only.

The mediocre writers usually don't even break even. BUT, they can brag that they've got books available on AMAZON, and shut up about how much they paid just to be sluts who give it away.

"Gosh, you're a published author. I can get your book on Amazon?!?!?"

"Yes, and you don't even have to pay for it! My book is one of 100,000 you can get for free. It's, uh, a promotion...' It's, uh, an ego-trip. It's a farce. It's a slut-notion of being liked and wanted and respected.

You can imagine a slut being told, "Well, one day you might be banging a porn producer who will put you in a movie. Maybe a rich guy will want to marry you."

It's entirely possible a movie producer will download your free book, out of 100,000, and then PAY you for the film rights."

Look, it happened once, to pudgy E.L. James because some people were objecting to the easy availability of cheap dirty eBooks.

So yeah, "YOU could be another pudgy E.L. James."

To quote Hemingway, "Isn't it pretty to think so."

People quote Hemingway. They don't quote any of Amazon's 100,000 freebie sluts.