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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 [...] 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 [...] 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. … [...] You had to know other online booksellers were going to take advantage of the whole AmazonFail thing this week, didn’t you? Some of you may be interested in this offer from Powell’s Books, but you’ve only got today and tomorrow to take advantage of it. At Powell’s, all books are created equal. We hold this [...] If you really don’t want to use Amazon.com any more, I have read a suggestion that people try The Book Depository in the U.K. Apparently, they’ve got great shipping arrangements. Have a peek. Meanwhile — support your local independent bookstores!
[...] Logo originated at the Cheryl's Mewsings blog Darnit. I had just gotten my Amazon Affiliate account and was going to start posting links here (in fact, the book links I posted in my “browse” post yesterday were the first ones connected to my own account). And now I’m going to refuse to use the [...] |
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