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Originally Posted by rcentros
The only one I know of is Koontz. I've heard of Kalin (from the Office) but I had no idea she wrote any books.
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Which begs the question: what is the WaPo writer complaining about?
The opening paragraph mentions Mindy Kaling’s ‘latest book’, “Nothing Like I Imagined”, which is actually not a book, but a series of 6 very short stories (17 pages for the first one; t’s a 21 minute audiobook). You can purchase either for $1.99 (or free to KU and Audible subscribers).
This is not something library patrons should feel deprived of: do they really want to check out a 17 page story? It’s a bad example to lead with, as it was never intended for print, or even to be collected into a single book. It’s snack food, meant only to spice up KU and Audible. Nobody’s clamoring for this, and she is not promoting it.
They would have done better to lead with Dean Koontz, except that Mindy Kaling is at least a hundred times more famous.
No doubt Amazon will continue to recruit more commercially successful authors, and it may start to be a problem if Amazon doesn’t make them available for sale elsewhere (but it requires storefronts willing to sell ‘Amazon’ books).