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GCUMstlyHarmlstoday at 11:26 AM1 replyview on HN

Peter Watts Amazon "About the Author".

> https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B001H6Q2TE/about

> This is awkward and a little creepy. They tell me I have to do it for promotional purposes, but I've already got a blog. I've already got a website. Being told that setting up an author page on fcuking Amazon is essential to success? A company that treats us all like such goddamn children it doesn't even allow us to correctly spell an epithet with a venerable history going back 900 years or more? That just sucks the one-eyed purple trouser eel.

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> Also the bio information above is fucked. For example, my work has only appeared in 36 BoY collections, not 350; the noms and awards info is out of date too, but apparently it was all written by some publishing house and I can't change it from this interface.

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> Still, here I am. But if you're really all that interested, go check out my actual blog/website. Google is not your friend (any more than Amazon is), but at least it'll point you in the right direction.

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> I'm the one on the left, by the way.

Hell yeah brother.

Wonder when it was written and what it would say if written today.


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pseudalopextoday at 4:15 PM

> A company that treats us all like such goddamn children it doesn't even allow us to correctly spell an epithet with a venerable history going back 900 years or more?

This meant what?