Written Word Media - 2019 Trend Predictions

[Tom Wood]

Pay to Play at Amazon is in the #1 spot:

https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/2019/01/03/top-ten-publishing-industry-trends-every-author-needs-to-know-in-2019/

[Shoe]

Thanks for posting this. Any idea what "While Amazon’s dismissal of individual queries is infuriating" means?

[ragdoll]

I'm not saying that's wrong, but the only visible foundation for their prediction on that would seem to be Mark Dawson's statement. While I think the conflict of interest should be apparent to all reading the prediction because it references at least one of his products, there is still a conflict of interest.

Additionally, I'm holding out hope that more people will realize this: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

I also think one (more AMS ads) and three (more indies making a living solely via publishing) are in direct conflict with one another.

[Tom Wood]

Thanks for posting this. Any idea what "While Amazon’s dismissal of individual queries is infuriating" means?

That's preceded by a reference to several problems that happened in 2018, so I think it's referring to the lack of human response to any one person who tries to report things or get help. It's all being handled by AI software.

[Shoe]

Of course. For some reason, I thought it was referring to doing search "queries" on Amazon.