Thanks for the education--your explanation.

As a 71-year-old, I have no interest at all in the $ factors. I spent 40 years of my life chasing dollars.

Now the writing is pure art, and pure satisfaction.

Having written four novels and published them with KDP, my attitude toward the infamous Jeff Bezos is: Thank God for Jeff Bezos!

Before I turned to his platform, I spent hours running paper through my home printers, assembling manuscripts into submissions and sending them to Simon n Schuster, Random House or wherever.

Then I noticed what Jeff was doing, and that has made all the difference.

As form Substack and Medium. . . who cares? Whatevah! I was on Blogger, Typepad and