What kills the sales on those books is the piracy.
Do you have any idea what it's like to have a pirate site promoting your book as 'The Best Book of the Month! Get it here for FREE!' and then you see that thousands have downloaded your book - FOR FREE - while only a dozen paid for it on Amazon?

Have you ever had people who STOLE YOUR FUCKING BOOK sending you emails and bitch at you for not writing the sequel because you didn't even make back the money you paid your cover artist?

Pirates are scum. People who steal books are scum. People who think that authors don't deserve to be paid for their hard work are scum. I stopped writing a series that was making me money because the piracy got so bad I was losing money on it. And those fuckers had the GALL to COMPLAIN to me because I stopped writing it.

Be careful of just who you're calling 'Karen' there.

No, in the UK Amazon is still the only alternative.

You don't know a damn thing about the business - Obviously.
ALMOST NO ONE GOES TO THOSE SITES!!!
Amazon controls over 95 percent of the ebook market. You can NOT make any money on those other sites.

Yeah, this happens. It happens a lot. But I bet most of the people replying to this thread go to pirate sites and download pirated works. You all think it's a 'victimless' crime, but no - it fucks over the author every time you do it and can, as we seen in these cases, destroy them completely.
Stop blaming Amazon - they're not the ones responsible for this.
Blame the pirates.
Blame the companies that support the pirates! (I won't mention who they are, but if you know anything about hacking and pirates you know EXACTLY which American company I'm talking about).

I also find it to be rather ironic, that TORRENTFREAK a website BY AND FOR PIRATES, a website that SUPPORTS PIRATES, is complaining about this. They should be cheering. IT's what they stand for after all.

Thanks, I wouldn't have thought to look there. I disabled the voice assistant first thing when setting up a pixel 6, and have been confused about why the power button did absolutely nothing on this phone. Even the power + volume buttons didn't bring up a menu - maybe because the assistant is supposed to capture and relay the button press? The only power down option was to hold it for about 15 seconds until it forcible rebooted.

Hence why they tried to make it about a violation of the ToS rather than copyright, since they know they don't have standing when it comes to copyright.

So far the largest attempt at writing a Linux driver in Rust has been the Asahi Apple M1 GPU driver. That has a few hundred lines of unsafe code* out of about ten thousand lines total. The author said this has both decreased the number of memory corruption bugs that they would expect in a new driver this size and made them much easier to track down when they did occur.

* Not counting common rust wrapper code not written for this driver. There are a few thousand lines of unsafe code there, not all of which are used by the driver, and which in the long run will be amortized across many drivers.

Most people don't put a password on their phone.
And no, it's not really 2-factor. If you have someones phone (of if you've cloned it) you have the keys to the kingdom.
2-factor exists solely to make it EASY to hack people's accounts. It is less secure, not more.

They're NOT doing it to shut down spammers. That's a MYTH. Most spammers use gmail.
They're doing it to shut down YOUR MAIL SERVER.
I've got my own mail server, I've had it longer than google exists. Google (and the other email companies) doesn't want me (or you) to have a mail server, so they put in methods that I can NOT get access to, so I can't use it.

SPAM is the excuse, but it is NOT the reason

There wasn't a single sentence in that article mentioning Musk, let alone giving him credit for this. It was all attributed to SpaceX in general, as it should be.

Building a Raptor a day isn't an individual effort. Back when SpaceX was a small startup building Falcon 1 it was not hard to find articles crediting individual engineers for the work they did, like Tom Mueller, who designed the Merlin engine used on Falcon 1, and lead all the improvements made to for the Falcon 9. But when people try to give him credit for the Raptor he pushes back. To paraphrase (don't have the book in front of me): "I may have made the very initial designs, but it has been reworked so much there is little left for me to take credit for. I assembled a team that has done incredible work on the Raptor - that is all I can take credit for." There are literally thousands of people working on Raptor at this point. Crediting it to any individuals would be a misattribution.

They are saying that it was overkill for the specific mission requirements that were put out for bid. Other proposals were less risky from a technical point of view while still accomplishing the job. That is a non-controversial assessment of the proposals, and something that needs to be taken into consideration when awarding a contract. But it isn't the only thing that needs to be considered, and NASA decided that SpaceX's superior track record of meeting technical challenges balanced that risk.

This is what happens when a school cares more about money than about education.

Assuming this isn't just BS propaganda (as far as I know, no one has achieved sustainable fusion in the lab, much less in any kind of power generating system) the environmentalists will all be quick to shut this down too. They're opposed to anything that generates power - no matter how clean.
Remember how Natural Gas was supposed to be the 'clean alternative'?
And of course nothing is cleaner than nuclear power - but that's been all but banned as well.

I very much prefer smaller mass market paperback books over the larger trade paperback format that everything is printed on these days. For older books, I go out of my way to find used copies printed in the 90â(TM)s or earlier rather than recent printings since they are so much more compact. Would love to be able buy new books in that size more often.

Background Information:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...