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Give Amazon.com the Bird

by JM

foamy.jpgHelp 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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