OK, I’m going to call it: the days of the old indie author model are over.

The days of selling purely on Amazon are over.

It used to be that you could put up a book, choose KU or wide, advertise a bit and work your way up.

That model has been dying for a while, but it’s dead.

It’s not about the Amazon ban, or about how bad economics (or tbh for many people simply being afraid they might be kicked out of their fucking job), although it is also about those things.

By my estimate, the world reached...