Give Amazon.com the Bird
Help support the cause by spreading the word and commenting on other’s posts. Here’s a link list, courtesy of Writer’s Weekly, of people who are talking about Amazon.com’s move to make a monopoly.
Amazon Explains POD Move; Ingram Raises Questions by Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly
Amazon squeezes on-demand publishers, ITWire
Backlash Over Amazon Monopoly Tactics by Deborah Woehr
An Important Lesson from Amazon on How NOT to Treat Your Customers, Virtual Impax
The Eight Hundred Pound Gorilla by Sgt. Mom
Amazon squeezes POD by Nick Farrell
POD Publishers Outraged by Amazon’s New Restrictions, Law Librarian Blog
Et tu, Amazon? by Todd Keisling
Amazon smacks little people with BookSurge By Cade Metz, The Register
A New Amazon Mandate? Say it ain’t so, Jeff by Morris Rosenthal
Amazon Forcing POD Publishers to Make a Hard Decision, Virtualbookworm
Amazon Tightens Grip on Printing by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal
Amazon Tightens Noose on Print-On-Demand Publishers; Insists They Use Company’s Own Service by Rafat Ali, The Washington Post
Amazon to Force POD Publishers to Use BookSurge by Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly
Amazon changes rules for print-on-demand publishers by Linda Rosencrance, Computerworld
Amazon pulls a Microsoft by Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld Blogs
Amazon Puts the Squeeze on Publishers by Betsy Schiffman, Wired Blog Network
Amazon Gets Demanding with Print-on-Demand Publishers, O’Reilly Radar
Amazon.com puts the screws to small publishers, Valleywag
Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer, Slashdot
Amazon Declares War on Lightning Source by Aaron Shepard
Amazon’s POD monopoly, booktwo.org
Is Amazon Getting Greedy? , open…
Oh, REAL nice, Amazon.com, Beatlegirl’s Blog
Market Report — In Play,MSN Money
Amazon Muscles Print-On-Demand Services by Duncan Riley, TechCrunch
Amazon & BookSurge, words count
Urgent News for Authors, The Holistic Writer
Monopoly - It’s Not A Game by Jean-Marie Hershey, Print CEO Blog
Of oil lamps, Print on Demand, and e-book machines: Amazon’s Bezos as a would-be Rockefeller by David Rothman
Deal Breaker? Amazon - BookSurge - POD - No Choice?, Workboxers
Amazon.com’s POD land grab, BookFinder.com Journal
Amazon Changes POD Tactics, Removes Velvet Gloves by Kassia Krozser, Booksquare
Amazon The Monopoly, PersonaNonData
Amazon Muscles Print-On-Demand Services, web2bite.com
Use BookSurge or Die? by Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware
Amazon/Golliath takes on the little guys by Helen Gallagher, Release Your Writing
Amazon Bullies POD to Use Booksurge — or Else., Shadowhelm’s Journal
Amazon Says It Will Only Sell Print-On-Demand Books That It Gets To Print, Techdirt
Amazon deletes competition, LibraryThing
What’s Amazon Up To Now? by Tawny Taylor
Amazon Shaking the POD World Big Time, Juno Books
A hearty “F$%k you!” to Amazon by Elf M. Sternberg
A Call to Bloggers: Stop Supporting Amazon, Inhabitatio Dei
Amazon to Force POD Publishers to Use BookSurge, Media Mensch
Self Publishers and Amazon, Writerly Stuff
Amazon Tightens Grip On Printing, booktrade.info
Amazon to Block Other POD Services from Using Amazon Marketplace, Dear Author
Amazon trying to screw small presses?, lupabitch
Dear Amazon, What are You Thinking? by Monica Valentinelli, Words on the Water
Will Amazon Hurt Small Pagan Publishers?, The Wild Hund
Amazon and us by Gill Polack
Will Amazon Become the Google of the POD Industry? by Deborah Woehr
Down with The Zon! by Celia Kyle
Beyond the POD grab: The IDPF should fight Amazon’s new eBabel, look for anti-trust violations, and reach out to Google by David Rothman, TeleRead
Amazon blocking books of competitive publishers?, electronista
We are not amused–veinglory, PODPeople
Bully on the block?, The Pearlsong Letter
The monopolists: You need to worry about Amazon too by Eion Purcell
Amazon owns the marketplace: return of the distributor, Thudfactor
Is Amazon trying to monopolize the empowering Publish-On-Demand market?, Chris Boese’s Weblog
500 pound gorilla, Idle musings of a bookseller
Bye-Bye “Buy Buttons” for POD Authors?, The Backroom at Dehanna.com
Amazon Making a Big Mistake by Cheryl Pickett
Amazon to force POD publishers to use Booksurge, Murder by 4
Amazon.com’s dirty little deed, pds_lit
Amazon’s Stupid Anti-Competitive Move, Principled Profit
Amazon Bullying POD Writers and Publishers Unfairly, A-ha
A Call to Bloggers: Stop Supporting Amazon, Resurrection Life
Amazon.com Is On Drugs, Thought Patterns
Amazon launches their weapon of mass destruction, steps on the long tail of independent authors by Mark Riffey
POD Publishers Told to Sell Directly Through Amazon, They Have to Use Booksurge, PublishersLunch
Maybe Amazon’s problem is obvious?, The Snoozeletter
No longer an Amazon customer, The Books of My Numberless Dreams
Are They Nuts? by Heather S. Ingemar
Amazon not playing fair, Synthstuff
Amazon attempting to squeeze POD industry, Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog
Amazon.com Takes On Digital Book Printers, Graphic Arts Online
Boycott Amazon!, PlainTalk
Amazon.com Hates Small Press? by JM, Fiction Scribe
Telling the 900-pound Gorilla Where not to Sit, Quaker Pagan Reflections
Amazon puts the Squeeze on POD Publishers by Easy Author Web Sites
Amazonian bullying, Satima’s Blogspot
Amazon May be on Receiving End of Internet Justice, Small Business Trends
Amazon Situation Continues and Lesson #1, The Publishing Answers Blog
Amazon Chaos by Marshall S. Thomas
That Amazon decision, PETRONA
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