| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1 | A. F. Stewart | This is unfair, wrong and a conflict of interest for Amazon. |
| 2 | Paul Prescott | |
| 3 | Tracey | Amazon shouldn't be allowed to blackmail publishers like this. They should also make a statement with the full story of what it is they intend to do. |
| 4 | Anonymous | |
| 5 | Anonymous | |
| 6 | G. M. Lupo | |
| 7 | Anonymous | |
| 8 | Sheila English | I'm also a business owner and sell books from our site. |
| 9 | Julie Ann Shapiro | |
| 10 | Andy Lurig | |
| 11 | Nick Carbo | I will not use amazon for anything! |
| 12 | Anonymous | I am disgusted with the underhanded methods Amazon has used to enforce this policy. Why have they not announced this publicly? Why haven't they given the public a chance to react to it? |
| 13 | Aaron Lazar | This smacks of monopoly and will hurt folks on all sides of the publishing business. |
| 14 | Jim Celer | |
| 15 | Anonymous | |
| 16 | Gayle Arrowood | Stop this monopoly! It is pure gaul and much too greedy for us to give into to. |
| 17 | Anonymous | Not only am I a customer, I am a self published author whose books would be directly affected by this action. |
| 18 | Jacqueline L. Jones | |
| 19 | Melissa Bach Palladino | |
| 20 | Angela Hoy | You can read my thoughts on this horrible situation at: http://www.writersweekly.com |
| 21 | Anonymous | Customer service is the unlimited resource of all successful businesses. Writer's, publishers and readers are all Amazon's customers. |
| 22 | Nick Urban | I've always liked Amazon, but this is shameful. |
| 23 | Andrew Rollings | Can you say "Monopoly"?
I would imagine a court case will be forthcoming. |
| 24 | Dominic Took | I'm a self published author, this is not correct, either in economic monopoly terms or in terms of people like me being able to have a chance at selling our books. THis reduces diversity or range and quality, i have nothing else other than to say its wrong and impedes any sort of advancement for the real issue here, diversity in published material. |
| 25 | Heather Kendall | My book "A Tale of Two Kingdoms" is POD with Lightning Source. The hard copy is published by Essence Publishing. I am wondering how this will affect Essence's relationship with Lightning Source. I hope Amazon will not get away with this. |
| 26 | Shel Horowitz | I have purchased from Amazon several times a year for many years. I am also a publisher and I am totally appalled. Unless they change their policy, I will take my business elsewhere.
Shel Horowitz, author, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, ww.grassrootsmarketingforauthors.com |
| 27 | Mike Reeves-McMillan | I am a self-published author currently using Amazon's CreateSpace. If Amazon continues to act arrogantly and dishonestly, I will be pulling my book from there and concentrating my attention on Lulu, where I have also got more sales. |
| 28 | Steven Utley | As an Amazon shopper, as an author with at least one print-on-demand book offered for sale at Amazon, and as an employee of a print-on-demand book manufactory not named BookSurge, I take an extremely dim view of Amazon's reported attempts to compel publishers to use BookSurge. |
| 29 | Emily Veinglory | |
| 30 | Mary Rosenblum | I am published by both big NY publishers and small press publishers and I see this as a step backward in the development of a healthy small press publishing universe. |
| 31 | Henry Jaegers | none |
| 32 | Dave M | An ISBN is an ISBN, sell all books with ISBNs without prejudice... |
| 33 | Anonymous | |
| 34 | Sune Donath | |
| 35 | Marnie Goodbody | |
| 36 | Anonymous | This is anti-trust. |
| 37 | Lida Verner | |
| 38 | Cheryl Pickett | |
| 39 | Anonymous | Whatever happened to a free market system? As both a customer and a POD author, I'm affected on multiple levels by this "policy." (Signing anonymously, as I don't want to risk retaliation by Amazon.) |
| 40 | Adam Wieland | If this happens I will take my business elsewhere. |
| 41 | Anonymous | |
| 42 | Kimberly Bea | This move can only hurt the book industry as a whole. |
| 43 | Jeanne Khan | As a long time customer, I am appalled. I use the
AOL Visa card and others to buy books in bulk; I earn at least two 25 dollar coupons per year and do not want Amazon to force this venture on authors. My friends who are authors are worried, hence, I am.
Please note customers matter. I expect Amazon to
cease and desist from the BookSurge brow-beating and leave independent publishers
as is. |
| 44 | Robert R. Wahl | Amazon! You make us angry! |
| 45 | Anonymous | I have shopped at Amazon.com since they opened. I even have the mug they sent out to customers at the end of their first year. I consider this move outrageous. |
| 46 | Anonymous | I am very upset ot hear that Amazon proposes to limit the books that I buy directly from you. Many of my purchases are from small presses and your recent actions directly affects those companies. As a frequent purchaser, check the records, I am very unhappy about this decision and it will affect my Amazon purchasing. |
| 47 | Barbara Foster | I have 3 published books by 2 different POD publishers which will be affected, plus I have 7 short stories with the Amazon Shorts program. I plan to pull all those short stories and advertise on my personal website that Amazon will not carry my book and to go to the publisher or Barnes & Noble or any other book store.
Amazon just shot themselves in the foot and haven't felt the pain yet, but they will. |
| 48 | Anonymous | Do no Evil. |
| 49 | Alex Marr | |
| 50 | Anonymous | |