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Publishing Is Insanity: Understanding the Risks of Self-Publishing Audiobooks and E-Books
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- Dec 26, 2019
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- How one of the richest companies pays less taxes than you do, even though they make billions in profit.
- Why monopolies are hurting both customers and sellers in a lazy economy, and why we may be all doomed if we continue this way.
- Law transgressions and sleazy tricks the before-mentioned company has stolen money and/or market share to grow their monstrous empire.
- Why most positive reviews and star averages on the company's enchanting website are actually fake, which makes a lot of sense if you really take the time to think about it.
- Money-making loopholes in a flawed system that can help you make tens of thousands of dollars extra (not kidding), because they're too stupid or arrogant at headquarters to update their bots.
- Lies to the public, their loyal customers, and their diligent sellers.
- How E-Books, paperbacks on demand, and audiobooks have evolved over the years.
On a different note, I hope you're still happy and curious enough to click the "buy" button. That way, I can be rewarded for the many hours I spent writing this stuff, and the willingness to reveal things nobody should actually know about.
Book 2: Yes, you can make money self-publishing books. What do you think I'm doing now by putting this book out there?
However, it's not easy. In fact, it's super stressful, heart-breaking, frustrating, and sometimes bordering insanity. The fake reviews, the high volume, the corrupted companies that own monopolic market shares... it all adds up. And then, if you expect to get paid and they suddenly decided to "investigate your account" and steal all your royalties, you need some kind of therapy. That therapy is writing it all down in a book.
May Azoo's sins be exposed to the infernal depths of hell. May they rot in their filth and the income they have stolen from thousands and thousands of hardworking dropshippers, publishers, and more honest competitors. May the taxes we paid and they have received by playing evasive games be the nails to their coffin. The truth has been buried long enough. Each year, their sins of greed grow, and their insatiable, ruthless desire to crush their competitors and the very people who helped them grow their evil empire, expand.
I wish you well in your publishing and business endeavors. May these stories and warning signs guide you to estimate where the boundaries are, what you can get away with, and what will get you into trouble.
Written by a fulltime publisher who has achieved six figures in revenue for 4 consecutive years with online book-pumping, and in which 4 years 3 years were six figures in profit. Learn from the best. Go through hell and you will achieve the rest. Don't be shocked. Good luck.
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Publishing Is Insanity: Understanding the Risks of Self-Publishing Audiobooks and E-Books
Description
- How one of the richest companies pays less taxes than you do, even though they make billions in profit.
- Why monopolies are hurting both customers and sellers in a lazy economy, and why we may be all doomed if we continue this way.
- Law transgressions and sleazy tricks the before-mentioned company has stolen money and/or market share to grow their monstrous empire.
- Why most positive reviews and star averages on the company's enchanting website are actually fake, which makes a lot of sense if you really take the time to think about it.
- Money-making loopholes in a flawed system that can help you make tens of thousands of dollars extra (not kidding), because they're too stupid or arrogant at headquarters to update their bots.
- Lies to the public, their loyal customers, and their diligent sellers.
- How E-Books, paperbacks on demand, and audiobooks have evolved over the years.
On a different note, I hope you're still happy and curious enough to click the "buy" button. That way, I can be rewarded for the many hours I spent writing this stuff, and the willingness to reveal things nobody should actually know about.
Book 2: Yes, you can make money self-publishing books. What do you think I'm doing now by putting this book out there?
However, it's not easy. In fact, it's super stressful, heart-breaking, frustrating, and sometimes bordering insanity. The fake reviews, the high volume, the corrupted companies that own monopolic market shares... it all adds up. And then, if you expect to get paid and they suddenly decided to "investigate your account" and steal all your royalties, you need some kind of therapy. That therapy is writing it all down in a book.
May Azoo's sins be exposed to the infernal depths of hell. May they rot in their filth and the income they have stolen from thousands and thousands of hardworking dropshippers, publishers, and more honest competitors. May the taxes we paid and they have received by playing evasive games be the nails to their coffin. The truth has been buried long enough. Each year, their sins of greed grow, and their insatiable, ruthless desire to crush their competitors and the very people who helped them grow their evil empire, expand.
I wish you well in your publishing and business endeavors. May these stories and warning signs guide you to estimate where the boundaries are, what you can get away with, and what will get you into trouble.
Written by a fulltime publisher who has achieved six figures in revenue for 4 consecutive years with online book-pumping, and in which 4 years 3 years were six figures in profit. Learn from the best. Go through hell and you will achieve the rest. Don't be shocked. Good luck.
- Éditeur:
- Self Publisher
- Sortie:
- Dec 26, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9788835350590
- Format:
- Livre
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Publishing Is Insanity - Anonymous Publisher
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Introduction
Just a heads up: I will be hiding under a pen name, which is something I advise a lot of self-publishers to do for various reasons. One reason is that, just like biblical prophets of old, whenever you open your mouth in this world and speak the truth, there are always people who are ready to throw a bunch of rocks at you and attempt to stone you to death. It’s sad but true, just like a lot of facts that might shock you in this book.
We will be talking about a company I will refer to as A-Zoo. You probably heard of the real company, and you may immediately know which one I’m talking about when I say that it’s the largest online retailer in the United States at this moment (2019), that it’s come down to a laughable monopoly in several online industries, and that the owner is a nerdy-looking baldhead who just cheated on his wife and had a divorce coming to him because of it. It’s okay, I guess, that divorce, since he can still literally swim in his billions of dollars he should have handed over to taxes, but instead, he decided to donate some of them to some charity to use them as a tax write-off for his still-least-generous company, so he can remain at 0% and even get tax returns, while middle class peons like you and me pay their butts off and struggle to pay the mortgage.
Another warning: This book will not be flooded with 4- and 5-star reviews by my faithful team of loyal minions, so if you decide to troll on this book, just know you don’t have to battle all those glowing stars, unlike you would have with so many other books nowadays. Personally, I think there is a lot to say about the ethics of reviews, and I will expand on that later too. But I decided to leave no fake reviews on this book and instead, go wide and put this valuable truth on all platforms, not feeding the hungry A-Zoo beast by going exclusively through them and faking my way to the top. Moreover, I hope you will see both perspectives about reviews, and that you will understand how confusing the online world really is.
Just type in this set of keywords in Google and you will get over 100 million results,
all 5-star reviews on [A-Zoo… replace with company name] are fake.
Go ahead, take some time and to through the blogs, reports, and complaints. Still think this company is honest?
And then there is this: This book contains so much information that, if more people would know about it, they would be able to define boundaries, keep their assets a little safer, and at the same time, make thousands of dollars more than they do, that I have decided to keep the price high. Nobody is going to get this information for dirt cheap, even if that means less sales for me. People pay hundreds of dollars on courses sometimes in which they reveal less than a tenth of what is being pointed out here. So suck it up, write your purchase off as an investment, so you can save yourself 2 bucks on taxes, and soak up all these details as they will be laid out before you. And if you really knew everything already, which I truly doubt, then at least I think I deserve that money for the subtle humor and elaborate vocabulary I put into this book, covered by an avalanche of sarcasm and loathing of certain people and companies.
I don’t know how long this book will be, and I won’t care. I will say what I have to say and leave it at that, as many words or thoughts as it takes. And honestly, I think a lot of books nowadays are repetitive anyway, just to increase their length and to make it seem like they have more unique content. The whole publishing industry has been a joke from the beginning, if you ask me. We’ll talk about that in a later chapter too.
This book will be a short read, since short reads are most time effective and spread the risk the most. I will talk more about that later too. But trust me when I say that it’s a risky endeavor to write a 300-page novel, only to self-publish it and struggle to get people to read it. I didn’t make this up, and it’s not a trick. There are entire theories and video courses by legit authors on the topic of length, and there is definitely an industry for it.
One promise I CAN give you, though, is that you will learn more about self-publishing from this book than many of the scamming YouTube videos, video courses, or what so-called experts say about it who have never even sat down and written a few hundred books to test the waters and see if what they claim actually works the way they think.
Now, despite of all these warnings and this candor, I hope you’re still intrigued by the controversial, thought-provoking topics I am about to address, and that you can see what’s happening behind the screens in a different light.
Chapter 1: A-Zoo’s Taxes
The Concept of Tax Evasion
Before I start this chapter, let me ask you this: Should someone who earns more pay less taxes? I mean, we all disagree on how much exactly and if it should be a progressive system, a flat rate, or if there should be write-offs and exemptions for companies, government institutions, etc. But seriously, how would you feel if you found out that, after working your butt off for a whole year and making $40,000 dollars from your day job, you have to fork over some 25 or 35% and your next door neighbor makes 100 billion dollars and instead of paying ANY taxes, gets taxes back because he found some smart trick to put more money into his selfish pocket.
Now, look, I’m not going to pretend to be holier than anyone else. If I found a loophole in the system, you bet I would take advantage of it, because money is money, after all that’s said and done, and everyone needs it and wants more of it. I understand that if you found a way to make quick cash or hand out less to the government, you might as well do it. I am not trying to paint a black and white picture here. I’m trying to put things into perspective. And some people’s perspective who order from A-Zoo every day is so distorted that they don’t see the bigger picture. Yesterday, I even talked to someone who, after hearing all the dirt on this company, still insisted, Well, you have to respect the CEO of that company, for all of the success he’s had.
Clearly, this well-intended, ignorant individual equals money with success, even blood money or stolen goods, a mistake we often make from a pure capitalist perspective.
If someone makes more money, does that mean he is just a hard worker? Or does it mean he is just smarter than anyone else? Does that mean he deserves that money, because he found a way to get it? I’ll leave it up to you to fill in the blanks. Actually, there may be SOME truth in these rhetorical questions, since there are definitely benefits for one’s career if he or she finds a gap in the market, is intelligent enough to figure out the puzzle, or works harder and longer hours, but I’m sure you know of someone who does the same and certainly doesn’t get the same results. Are there poor people who are poor because they are lazy? I’m sure there are. Are all poor people, therefore, lazy? Ha-ha! Are you kidding? I shouldn’t even have to answer that question. Maybe go to Sierra Leone and tell some of those starving kids that it’s their own fault that they don’t have enough to eat. That will clear that point up.
Anyway, before I go off on a rant on capitalism versus socialism, let me assure you that I’ve lived in several nations across the world, and my perspective on such political issues is nuanced enough that I can see the complexity and controversy of many of these debates, and that I sometimes wonder why other people are too stubborn to think that half of the country must just be evil or dumb or one-sided; or the other half of the world, perhaps.
However, whenever I think of paying taxes, I’d like to think that the country should guard the boundaries and stand up for the average individual. The middle class always gets fluffed (excuse my eccentric replacement words for actual curse words), and it doesn’t seem to stop. And when we are talking about one of the biggest companies in the United States, and maybe in the world (let me get back to you on that… or not), a sense of justice makes my anger hormones boil up inside and call them out.
So let’s talk about it.
Billions for Billionaires
A-Zoo is one of the two companies that has reached a trillion dollars, and its founder is the number one richest man in the world. But despite its 11.3 billion-dollar profits in 2018, it still received $129 million as a tax rebate. Does that sound fair to you? Here, you made a lot of money. So instead of demanding you to, oh, I don’t know… pay for roads, government paperwork, the army, the environment, the economy, airlines, and some other important things like debt to other countries or the health care system, we’re going to give you a present: 129 MAHILLIOOON DOLLARS, no less!!!!
Really?
One of the ways they did this, is put a lot of the profits back into their business, pay themselves with what they make, manipulate the system by writing off their expenses, and crush every competitor like the cockroaches they are. They file all their profits as losses, just so they can write them off. Pretending to make losses when you’re profiting and growing, is deceitful, no matter how you spin it. The job’s act that our American president signed has allowed many of those write-offs, which allowed them to invest more into machinery, warehouses, etc. They pay employees with stock instead of revenues, and then deduct the value of that stock off their totals. Between the value of the stock when sold to the employees and the accredited value, there is a convenient difference these sleaze bags calculate
or estimate
to get their tens of millions back from the government.
But guess what, we have bold, courageous citizens standing up to this big bully. A-Zoo encountered a problem when they tried to get a 3 billion (yes, you heard that, a B, not an M, not a typo)… let me repeat that: a 3 BILLION dollar tax break to put a stupid office in the Big Apple. Did these apple people like it? No, because their rents went up immediately, and what’s more, is that they (and you, and me) have to compensate for that tax break in the end. I guess the government is not as concerned with helping the average citizen, namely, the citizen that buys useless stuff from this online webstore that allows them to become so big in the first place, as they are with building up an elite group that can fly to Denver and hide in their bunkers under the creepy apocalypse horse that crushed its sculptor. Okay, I’m not sure how much I believe in that conspiracy theory, but it’s crystal clear that these high-society jerks have zero concern for the hands that fed them. After all, the money has to come from somewhere, doesn’t it? And the average Joe Shmoe will order all their junk from their website while getting no respect back.
Back to New York. Good for them, because they protested against A-Zoo’s greedy deal with signs like, No Scamazon
and No handouts
and Fluff you, Jeff Bozo.
One girl says, It shows that everyday Americans can have a say against the richest man in the world.
Other comments were, Here is the one percent, dictating to everyone else even though we gave them a fair deal. I think it’s going to frustrate people all over this country to see a company treat a neighborhood and a city like that.
Again, good for them. Pack up and take your tax hand-outs somewhere else.
Large corporations like A-Zoo always hide under the fact that they create jobs,
something we’ll discuss in a bit; this is not so glamorous as it may sound. And despite of this, not everyone was happy in New York. Some people just
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