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I applied to the Amazon Publishing Creator Program and they accepted me. Yay! I don‘t know what social content inspiration means but I‘m glad they‘re giving me a chance.

I saw this ad on Facebook today. Normally, I would be so excited to buy ebooks from Amazon but now, I‘m rethinking buying any digital books. It makes me not want to hoard my ebooks or audiobooks anymore since I‘m only purchasing a license to read them. I like digital books though. I don‘t have to worry about finding space for them or deciding what to do with them after reading them. All I have to do is just delete them off of my phone.

Here‘s more from that post I saw today from a Facebook page I follow called Dog And A Book talking about Amazon‘s new change. I don‘t want to pirate books and I don‘t want to hurt authors. I downloaded my ebooks to my computer because I was worried about losing them. I thought I was doing the right thing saving them to my computer and just keeping them on my computer because if I lose my ebooks then I won‘t have any way to get them back.

I follow a page on Facebook called Dog And A Book and she posted about Amazon‘s new change where Amazon isn‘t going to allow people to download books to their computer anymore and here‘s a few things she said about it. I wish I would‘ve seen her post about it before I downloaded my ebooks to my computer. I‘m still trying to process the fact that for years since owning a Kindle that I‘ve never actually owned my ebooks.

I just finished adding the Kindle files into a folder on my computer I created just for books and it didn‘t take me very long to do at all because I just selected all the files at once and moved them to the books folder. Now that they‘re on my computer, I could move them to another e-reader or just keep them on my computer. I would recommend downloading your ebooks from Amazon while you can because on Feb 26, you won‘t be able to.

I just finished downloading all of my Kindle ebooks to my computer. I had 2 ebooks that I wasn‘t able to download for some reason. They probably deleted them from their website and I deleted some that I wasn‘t going to reread. I have 3,454 books. I started downloading all of them on Wednesday and I just finished downloading all of them on Saturday at 4 AM. I‘m glad that‘s done. All I have to do next is put them in a folder on my computer.

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-changes-licensing-text-when-kindle-bo...

I‘m not buying ebooks or audiobooks from Amazon anymore. I‘ll buy ebooks or audiobooks somewhere else or directly from an author‘s website. They don‘t want us to own our ebooks and I don‘t think they want us to even own our audiobooks so I‘ll either borrow books from Libby or Kindle Unlimited.

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/alternatives-to-amazon-for-books

Libby is a good alternative. I used Thrift Books before. I haven‘t tried the other ones mentioned here but they sound good. After finding out that we don‘t actually own our ebooks or audiobooks and that we‘re just purchasing a license to access the content, using Libby or Kindle Unlimited is starting to sound better to me. If I want to own something then I‘ll buy it.

Tonight, I downloaded more of my ebooks from Amazon. Earlier from 7-9 PM, I worked on this and stopped on page 74. I had to update my software on my computer but then tonight from 11:30 PM-2 AM, I downloaded some more and I stopped on page 100 out of 142 pages. I‘m stopping tonight and I‘ll start again tomorrow.

I‘ve made a lot of progress on downloading more of my ebooks to my computer. I downloaded books for 5 hours and 30 minutes tonight and I‘m still not done yet. I have 3,529 books. I made it to page 58 out of 142 pages of books on my Amazon account. I stopped on page 58. I have until Feb 26 to download my ebooks. I‘m stopping tonight and starting again tomorrow. My hand is tired.

Tonight, I started downloading my Kindle books to my computer. I have 3,000+ ebooks on my Kindle. I downloaded 500 books. There‘s only a few days left until Amazon turns into a paid library where they can edit books and remove books whenever they want to. I feel better already that I‘m taking control over my ebooks so the books will actually belong to me and when they‘re all on my computer, they can‘t mess with them or take them away.

I‘ve decided that I‘m going to download my ebooks because on February 26, Amazon is becoming a paid library. If we don‘t download our ebooks to our computers then Amazon can take them away from us. I don‘t want to lose my books. They‘re mine. I paid for them. I have 3,000+ ebooks on my Kindle. I was just talking to my mom about this and she told me that I can just save them as files to my computer and that I don‘t even need a USB drive.

I saw this post in a Facebook group I‘m in about the change from Amazon happening on February 26. This is the second part of it.

I saw this post in a Facebook group I‘m in about the change from Amazon happening on February 26. This is the first part of it.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/download-your-kindle-books-asap-before-amazon-kill...

Wow. I didn‘t know Amazon did that. I‘m not switching to another e-reader because I‘m happy with what I have but this makes me look at them differently so basically, none of us have ever owned our Kindle books. We‘ve only been buying a license to rent them this whole time. Is Amazon trying to become a paid library?

https://www.howtogeek.com/kindle-discontinues-download-transfer-via-usb/

Ok. I get it now. Amazon wants us to only use their e-readers. Well, this doesn‘t affect me because I‘m not switching to another e-reader. I like my Kindle. I‘m happy with it. It works well for me. I don‘t see any reason why I should switch to something else.

What‘s highlighted in purple is what‘s standing out to me in the article I just shared a link to. We don‘t actually own our digital content that we pay for. We‘re just buying a license to rent it. I‘ve heard that it‘s always been that way. Why didn‘t anyone tell me this? I just found out about this and I‘m trying to process it.

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transf...

I just found out about this. I‘ve never used this feature. So basically after Feb 26, you won‘t actually own your Kindle books. We‘re just going to be buying a license to rent our books and I guess that means if they remove the ebook from their website then you lose the ebook. I wonder if they‘ll start doing this on Audible too.

I didn‘t know about this. Personally, I prefer human narrators over listening to a robot read a book. Human narrators have inflection in their voices and robots don‘t.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/9...

I‘m sharing ebooks that I preordered on Amazon. I‘m excited about all of these books.

My final #BookHaul from the Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale! And best part free shipping to Israel!!!!

#BookHaul Round two of the Amazon Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal. @DisneyFan 2 books are mine, one for hubby … are u able to guess which 2 are mine?!!! Tagging books below 👇🏽😊

#BookHaul number one arrived today!! I couldn‘t resist… Amazon‘s Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal with free shipping to Israel!!! They get me EVERY time!! I ordered 9 books 🤦🏼‍♀️#NoApologies

Apparently people have been buying, quickly reading, then returning ebooks on Amazon, literally costing authors money due to a loophole. I know Littens would not by ok with this! There‘s a change.org position opposing the policy, if you want to sign: https://www.change.org/p/change-amazon-return-policies-for-completed-e-books-pro...

This month Amazon Prime members get two picks. 😊😊These are mine. What did you pick??
#FirstReads
#AmazonFirstReads

When an author believes in their own hype...

Customer: Where's my book? I'm a bestselling author on Amazon!

Me: Again, who the f*@k are you?

Hey!! Prime Day has officially started!! Just wanted to share that they have a book promo going on! Happy shopping!! 🛒 Don‘t spend too much! Ehhhh who am I kidding..BUY ALL THE BOOKS!!

https://www.google.com/amp/observer.com/2018/07/amazon-prime-day-boycott-europea... — for anybody who doesn‘t know about this, Amazon workers are going on strike this week. Buying from amazon during that time is the equivalent of crossing their picket line. A reminder that Goodreads is also owned by Amazon and I personally won‘t be logging into it for the next week or so.

Has anyone listened/read these? They sound interesting!
#TBR #KindleUnlimited

So this news came today. I‘m pretty sure I‘m not going to keep using Prime with this increase. All you have to do is save enough items in your cart to equal $35 and shipping is free anyway. Or is it $25? I forget. Anyone else a little bothered by this?

You guys, look what I spotted in NYC today - An IRL amazon bookstore! What do you think of Amazon opening retail stores? Pro/Con? I feel weird about it, but not sure how to articulate it. 🤔