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Bad Romance: A cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s algorithm
The Verge did an interesting article on the hijinks a group of romance authors got up to in order to game Kindle Unlimited payouts. It's kind of depressing, but then I guess there's a reason you don't want to see how the sausage is made.
One interesting point: They say that one of the fallouts of this hacking of the system is that it is making romance more misogynistic. I don't know that I buy that. I know very little about romance, but within the article, they don't really support their claim. |
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I'm going to write some cocky bad romance.
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It reminds me of Grouchos' reply to the Warner Bros letter sent to United Artists when the the Marx Bros were making a movie called "A Night in Casablanca".
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I'd guess that people who write romance just for the money, without caring about the genre or the community, are more likely to fall back to lazy cliches from the bad old days in the 80s, like the rapey hero and the innocent virgin heroine, while modern romance has (mostly) moved on from that, in many different and interesting directions. |
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