huh that's crazy. And it's because the hyperscalers aren't really showing any payoff for their AI investments? And there're concerns about the money not being there to justify all of this investment in AI data centers? Oh and the neoclouds are unstable too? That's crazy man. News to me

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I'd say next week we'll talk about box set scams but I don't want to attract frivolous lawsuits. IYKYK 😅

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anyway thank you for coming to another episode of "why do all of my publishing threads turn into A History of Dodgy Publishing Tactics" with your host, Self-Publishing Grandma

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sometimes it is actually scary when I think about how my brain is a graveyard of self-pub money making schemes, but I was there from the very beginning so I watched *all of it* go by. lol

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People were publishing thousands of 5 - 10 page "books" that hit 10% the second someone downloaded & opened them. One popular strategy was creating reading order lists for popular series. Some people were making tens of thousands a month by publishing 5 page reading order guides.

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