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charrcheese t1_iqvrzsj wrote
Reply to comment by ViralRiver in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
And everyone on the planet associates him with the company.
mechaPantsu t1_iqvidel wrote
Reply to I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Missed opportunity to call it (BEHOLD!) The Deamazoninator and have a r/suddenlydoofenshmirtz moment.
becomeanhero69 t1_iqvhwdd wrote
Reply to I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Oh nah lol. Amazon all the way.
PM_ME_MY_INFO t1_iqvd19n wrote
Reply to comment by ImRudeWhenImDrunk in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
👆 this guy is drunk
madjo t1_iqvcdr5 wrote
Reply to comment by thedrunkpenguin in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Behold, my Amazon-inator. It transforms every non-amazon-link back to an amazon-link, and then I'll take over the entire tri-state area!
madjo t1_iqvc6hx wrote
Reply to comment by RucITYpUti in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
If you're in the US, yes. Outside of the US, ymmv.
Here in NL, it's epub, I believe.
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whereisthenutella t1_iqvb6ur wrote
Reply to comment by Kree8tive in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Don't search on Amazon is a start. Use the search engine of your choice.
FlumpSpoon t1_iqvb0fw wrote
Reply to I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
As an author, thank you for this. I only get 2/3rds of my royalty from Amazon sales. Amazon can sell my books cheaper than I can buy them, and still make a profit.
FistinChips t1_iqv87uk wrote
Reply to comment by warbeforepeace in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
That's not his site
Mezzaomega t1_iqv5tbg wrote
Reply to comment by fajitaman69 in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
I see someone hasn't learnt the lesson from playing Monopoly
LordGnomeMBE OP t1_iqv51mh wrote
Reply to comment by warbeforepeace in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
My little site is on GitHub. If they use AWS, there’s not a lot I can do about it. Booksprice.co.uk is not mine, so also not a lot I can do.
Belletenebreuse t1_iqv48za wrote
Reply to comment by chocobo-selecta in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Three or so years ago, I went directly to an author's website to buy a series expressly to avoid buying from Amazon.
Turned out she uses Amazon to print and/or drop ship, so the package came from them anyways. And her site was probably on AWS too, for all I know. :(
Treczoks t1_iqv3vre wrote
Reply to I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Way easier: I look up the book on Amazon, copy the details into a mail, and send it to my local book store.
fjccommish t1_iqv3f3d wrote
Reply to I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Security risk warning. Nope.
warbeforepeace t1_iqv39xg wrote
Reply to comment by AstonGlobNerd in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
But they arent trying to avoid amazon.
ImBusyGoAway t1_iqv3470 wrote
Reply to comment by Asil_Shamrock in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Appreciate it, cheers!
Appoxo t1_iqv29lb wrote
Reply to comment by WolfeReader in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Bought a paperwhite and 90% of my calibre is pirated, 5% are impossible-to-find ebooks from amazon and the other 5% is DRM free ebooks from Osiander and other domestic shops.
LordGnomeMBE OP t1_iqv19ll wrote
Reply to comment by perrycotto in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Yeah, I plan to expand it as I work out how to make that work.
perrycotto t1_iqv0r3z wrote
Reply to comment by LordGnomeMBE in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Very nice idea ! It would be cool to add the option of pasting directly the ISBN code, also it would be "cool" if you're website is hosted by another service provider instead of AWS ?
I don't know if it's possible but for example in my city there's a website that connects a lot of public libraries around the country (to borrow for free books), maybe you could also link that ? Plus a link to archive website or other lending free platforms
Asil_Shamrock t1_iquzijh wrote
Reply to comment by ImBusyGoAway in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
The Libby app is wonderful for this, if it is available to you!
everybodypretend t1_iquz2d5 wrote
Reply to comment by Inventiveunicorn in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
It’s not their fault. Their brains have been smoothed out by too much reddit use.
In real life there exists this space between right and wrong called discourse.
But that’s too much effort here, there’s no space between up ⬆️ and down ⬇️
The comments under this will be dismissive or non existent
ViralRiver t1_iquvhaa wrote
Reply to comment by greentiger45 in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
He is literally the executive chairman of Amazon.
Inventiveunicorn t1_iquuafi wrote
Reply to comment by everybodypretend in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
They are hilarious. It's like Pavlov's dogs, so easy to predict.
Downvote away my little acne-besieged, angry, man-children,...do your worst. It makes me smile.
thedrunkpenguin t1_iqvs9cv wrote
Reply to comment by madjo in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
Haha perfect :)