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AmazonFail I hate hate hate empires, and those who try to build them and force people to be enslaved to them. Therefore as of today I am starting to remove Amazon links and affliliate crap from this blog. Have a look at the Library Thing blog, and read about how Amazon wants LT basically to be [...] This has me so horrified I can’t even write about it. [...] AmazonFail Yegods. Every day now, Amazon is up to something nasty again. It’s hard to keep up. And I’d really rather write about good stuff. From Pogue’s Posts in the New York Times, “Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others:” This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had [...] You know, I don’t even go looking for this stuff about Amazon, but it just seems to be busting out all over, lately. I keep thinking, as I watch this sort of thing happening more and more, “Who do they think they are — General Motors??” (Meaning, of course, the old General Motors before the supposedly [...] I think I’ll be going back to using Powell’s Books and Biblio.com for my book links for a while, and maybe permanently. … [...] To say this is an abomination of abominations is making it sound like a church picnic. This marketing-targetting-attacking-people-with-advertising is getting so out of hand, I doubt it will be long before they’re demanding the right to put advertisements on the insides of our eyelids so we can’t even escape their money-grubbing pocket-robbing shouting that way. … [...] I’m sure my American readers won’t know the story: how writer Yann Martell, of Life of Pi fame, decided in April of 2007 to send Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper a book every two weeks. Each book would be designed, as Martel says, to “expand stillness.” And he would list all the books on the website, [...] In light of today’s California Supreme Court ruling, stripping hundreds of my friends in California of equal rights with every other citizen of that state, I have only one thing to say. Buy this book. The Case for Same-Sex Marriage, by William N. Eskridge, Jr. Buy one, buy a hundred. Give this book to everyone you know. There is [...] Darn right. It seems that Apple got so many complaints about its puritanical refusal to accept the Eucalyptus app for the iPhone (because some of the books out there are *gasp* dirty!), that they’ve finally backed down and accepted it after all. The Macworld website reports on this in its article, Apple changes its mind, accepts Eucalyptus [...] |
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