Blue Hand Books + BAD BANANA

Authors should have heard a business model collapsing in slow motion. Every function Amazon used to monopolize — trust, discovery, payment, printing, fulfillment — is being pulled apart and sold separately. IngramSpark, Lulu, direct sales. The default that made KDP "the whole game" is coming apart, and the data's been pointing this way for three years: 91%, then 87%, then 83%.

👉👀 listen and learn: BLOG: https://microcosmpublishing.com/blog/2026/09/are-book-returns-good-or-bad-for-publishers-w-jane-friedman-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing/