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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 [...] 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 [...] 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. … [...] Apple isn’t the progressive, hip ol’ company it wants people to think it is. It’s a moralistic prig (not to mention a bloody hypocritical one), and certainly is an American company that contradicts all that “land of the free, home of the brave” stuff. … [...] |
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