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As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.

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[–] Catch42@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Let's be real it probably will create an uneven playing field just like amazon does. At first it will seem great and then when they have enough data to make sure they can do it without pissing off their users, they'll start squeezing the authors.

[–] Detry@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The link is broken, secure connection failed error.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Works for me. Could have been a temporary glitch. Maybe try again

[–] Detry@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still doesn't work.

SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Weird. It still works for me

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm baffled by the premise that a platform for people who only have the attention span for 5 seconds of video is somehow selling people books.