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What?! If you lived in states from LA to GA then you must know what I'm talking about. You'd also know post Black folk in the south are some variety of protestantism. Like I said, Black folk don't own or control that paper. Jeff Bezos does. Again, whose koolaid are you gonna drink when it comes to a critique of a Black man?

@Pioneer1 true, but that also means these people will never be wealthy (save a winning lottery ticket). And that is cool because most entrepreneurs will not be wealthy either. But hourly wage earners, scraping by pay check to pay check, will never be wealthy on top of it being a stressful way to live. I know more people who have stroked out and died during this pandemic that i know who have died from Covid19 and I believe stress had a lot to do with it...

Well you are a very conscious Brother @Pioneer1, which is not typical. What percentage of the average Brothers that you know have heard of all three? No I have not heard Martin speak.

Treatment by whom? How did you learn of the mistreatment? Your answer will almost certainly make my point. Who in the mainstream media is talking about powell's work? How did you learn about it? Man most southern Christians are about as socially conservative as you can get, but they would not describe themselves as conservative, because the GOP have coopted the term and it is now tantamount to meaning white racist. @Pioneer1 there are too many Black people who don't want to live in you utopia (or mine). The racism and the politicization which drives it is what us killing us. I think this system could work if we all could show more compassion for each other.

I basically agree with you guys. What industry is not a service industry? The real secret to wealth, accessible to most Bkack people, as illustrated in Black Fortunes, is entrepreneurship.

I agree. If you are a celebrity it is different. Over the years I've learned nothing I did, directly, on social media resulted in much engagement. It was always someone else sharing something I've done on AALBC that went viral. As a result, I spend very little time on social media (less time per day than it is taking to type this message on my cell phone), and spend most of my time adding content to the site. I think writer should invest most of their time on their craft and much less on social. Some popular authors i know pay others to post on socal. Besides engaging on social media serves to enrich Dorsey and Zuckerberg and don't they have enough already?

You must be from NYC or nearby because most people don't know who these folks are. I have heard them all speak. I was in my home office once and saw Dr. Ben walk by 🙂 I don't like a system where so few people can accumulate so much wealth and so many are struggling. I don't see Jeff Bezos any differently, in concept, than a Louisianan plantation owner. As long as our system is based on consuming more and more things, we really don't need, nothing will change.

The first new car I brought was in 1984. I struggled to make payments and drove without insurance (which was as much as the car note) for a few months. That car was ultimately stolen. The last new car i brought i paid cash for and paid the insurance 6 months, for which the insurer gives you a 15 percent discount. If you have to finance a car you pay a LOT more for it. Today leasing is all the rage. It helps people get into vehicles they could not normally afford, but you actually never get to own it. That last car i paid cash for is still on the road, it is 9 years old and in great shape. I plan to drive it until the wheels fall off. The problem is because people are poor and can afford a cheap new car they end up paying much more than a rich people do. Insurance rates and interest rates are also higher for Black men who live in NY, NJ, and PA. All states i have previuosly lived or worked.

"Black Cancel Culture" does not exist, because we have no media to speak of. Here your opinion of Carson gets equal weight to Pioneer's whose assessment is diametrically opposite. On social media opinions like yours are buried or used as fodder to help elevate opinions like Pioneer's. Which create the impression all Black people have no tolerance for your ideas like yours. Twitter and the white owned media are doing the "cancelling." A minute fraction of Black people express themselves on Twitter -- far from representative of us all. I was being sarcastic @Pioneer1. Diane looks like that puppet from Waylan and madam

Yes, all of it. Where is your audience? Go where they are. Yes advertise (paid) and promote (non paid1) consistenly where it makes sense. Does the advertisement/promotion reach your target audience and are they engaging as a result? I can't recommend platforms. You'll have to do the research and test to see what is effective for your book. For authors who are unknown advertising is as much about exposure as it is about sales. A well known author can generate sales more easily with a advertisement because their audience is already familiar with their work Have you started collecting email addresses for a mailing list? It is one of the best ways to stay engaged with your readers and supporters. More people use email than Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter combined.

The two options you laid out are not mutually exclusive; you can do both. But don't limit yourself to social media. There are many ways to build your platform; social media is just a potential component. Also, im not exactly what you mean by this: Whats the rush?

Sure it makes the most economical sense to buy a used car, but the point is many people simlly can't afford to do something so basic as buying an inexpensive new car.

@daniellegfny with hindsight as an advantage what is your assessment of Carson today? Sex sells. This is old news. The liberals counter with Amy Goodman...

@Maurice whoever you patronize will be happy and of course sales a from a local bookshop support the author and publisher. @O.W. I have not seen the CNN coverage, but the folks at Mahogany are my peeps 🙂

@Maurice I never mentioned that @harry brown had a website, for I do not know that to be the case. It will however be interesting to discover if that is indeed true.

@daniellegfny welcome to the forums! You already have a leg up by creating an account and commenting on another post. I pay extra attention to these types of authors, as opposed to the ones who do the drive-by-guest-post never to be heard from again. The only negative is the promotion of Amazon. If you post on site that sells books and it is immposible to link to the site you are on, it is best to link or mention your own site. Personally I boycott Amazon. Every woke/conscious bookseller should.

To answer the guest's question about a website to "prove" what Yanis is saying: Not every thing can be proven or even learned on some website. Sure you can get a fact or two from some website, but the man gave a 90 minute presentation and the notion that all of the ideas and conclusions drawn can be proven on some website makes no sense to me, unless the site is www.everything-yanis-lectured-about-is-wrong.com. Sometimes "proof" requires acquiring a level of knowledge that can only come through study. I sure there is no website that can prove what Yanis discussed is true. The question strikes me a naive. That said based upon my anecdotal observations capitalism has already destroyed democracy. Capitalism reward greed look at the politicians running our country... Forget it pay there will never be a successful armed revolution. Those in power control the military. You can't do this in a country you have no control over. Yeah, forget democracy it never existed in the country. Capitalism never served us either. It brought us slavery, jim crow, hyper incarceration, shitty schools, dead-end, low wage jobs, and an early death.

@Maurice don't feel the slightest bit guilty for borrowing a book from the library. Not every book is a keeper and many don't have space for very many.

How to Be An Antiracist did ultimately become the top-selling book on AALBC for the May/June period. I sold more copies of this book, in one month, that any other book, during the same period of time, in the almost 23 years I've been running the site. Amazon has upped the ante and is currently selling the book at 45% off list. I would not have old nearly as many copies of Antiracist if readers did not make a conscious decision to support a Black-owned bookstore. I have to commend these customers because they see through Amazon's faux-consciousness and decided support booksellers who care more about readers, authors, and publishers than how much money they can extract from them.

@Yvonne here is a recent post that should help explain the pricing anomalies you've noticed: Basically third party selling have learned to exploit Amazon. Pricing books like this (and selling them) can only work if there is collusion or a monopoly. Amazon has created an effective monopoly for the online sale of books. Third party sellers are exploiting this effective monopoly.

Have you been the the spirit realm?

Established by who? Man I thought anti-vaxxers were all white women. Pioneer is there no conspiracy theory that you do not buy into? @Chevdove did you not have your children vaccinated? Man, has this gentleman done something to you personally? Did he steal your woman or something? Are you saying that Black people were murdered by white people over the 4th of July and that these murders were made to look like they were committed by Black people and that the police did nothing and all of this was widely reported in the media? I'm glad you learned something from the video @Chevdove. I'm not sure why Pioneer thinks every white person is an active architect of racism even though they were born into this system just like we were.

His mispronunciated a couple of names but that is a small thing. The white folks running around did not create racism. Sure they benefit from it and to perpetuate it but many white people unknowingly. Which vaccine would that be? Dude that is what the Brother did; he realted newspaper accounts of the perputrators.

I know a little but about Germantown. Amazon is a free for all because 3rd party marketers can sell anything. Used UK books as new in America, etc. I did update the book cover i screwd up the piblisher name and page count somehow sorry about that.

I just updated Remembered to the correct US ISBN13: https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9781982627126 I also added links to the audio and ebook versions. "9780241413586" is an ISBN13. It is 13 digits long and starts with a 979 or 978 is is an ISBN13. I begun to start simply saying ISBN even though the ISBN10 (the 10-digit book identifier) is also used. Last week I dropped the ISBN10 field from my database altogether, as ISBN13s that start with 979 do not have an ISBN10 equivalent. I now that may have been way too much info, but someone out there may be curious 🙂 The 9780241413586 also comes up as a UK book, so I can not sell it here or find it in distribution. Do you have the US version? The same goes for Ladybird Tales of Super Heroes. I see form you bio you are from PA, did you relocate to the UK? Yes book clubs, librarians, and others use the site to find author's contact information. Since author contact information often changes, I encourage authors to share website addresses and I direct readers there. Websites go bad too, but I pick my poison.