| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1001 | Anonymous | |
| 1002 | Eden Rosen | |
| 1003 | Jeff L. Anderson | This whole scenario seems incredibly self-destructive and Machavellian. Is it real? |
| 1004 | Melanie Foster | Come on Amazon. Part of what was your initial allure was your supposed "fairness" policy to everyone from authors - customers. I PROMISE that if you follow through on your new attempt to blatantly monopolize the Print-On-Demand publishing business I and EVERYONE I know will BOYCOTT YOU.
Are you so big and so rich that you can be without customers and writers? Don't forget that there is enough pie for us all so only take your fair share! |
| 1005 | Anonymous | |
| 1006 | john kilcher | This is just plain wrong |
| 1007 | M A | |
| 1008 | Sean Gilbert | |
| 1009 | Anonymous | |
| 1010 | kelley Benson | |
| 1011 | Jacob Hendrickson | |
| 1012 | Anonymous | |
| 1013 | Rebekah Crego | This decries free-market and fair to our country's authors! This will hurt both Amazon and the authors. Customers like the availability of ALL authors on one site. If we have to start looking elsewhere for one, we'll look elsewhere for all. |
| 1014 | Brian Orr | |
| 1015 | Anonymous | Recommended name change: Judas.com
And now I finally understand the title "The Ugly American." With Amazon's greed, they go from being a source of pride to a source of disdain and embarrassment. My frustration and anger is such that I no longer hope they this action bites them; I hope someone else steps up to the plate and Amazon collapses. "Where's the love?" Amazon took it to the bank. |
| 1016 | Linda Morris | If this happens I will boycott Amazon |
| 1017 | Anonymous | Until Amazon reverses its new position on POD and Booksurge, I will purchase my books and other merchandise elsewhere, even if the cost is higher.
If you read about other writers' experiences with Booksurge, why would you want to use them? |
| 1018 | Anonymous | This is a monopoly move and unacceptable. If Amazon is allowed to move forward with this policy I will boycott Amazon and will urge all my friends, relatives and coworkers to boycott Amazon as well. |
| 1019 | Deran Ludd | |
| 1020 | Natalie Perrault | |
| 1021 | Darleen Christopher | Greed has a karmic payment plan, even if it is amazon.com |
| 1022 | Anonymous | |
| 1023 | Elissa Ball | |
| 1024 | J. S. Bullock | |
| 1025 | Debra Leigh Scott | I have been a consistent customer on Amazon, and have appreciated the way that the business model has allowed independent bookstores and independent publishers to be an active and vital part of the book industry. This move, should Amazon go through with its demand, will have me rethinking my shopping habits. I will happily join a boycott of Amazon and work to raise awareness of these unsavory practices. |
| 1026 | Anonymous | I am I the process of finishing a book that I will be self publishing. The thought that I cannot choose LuLu, Tate or another non-Amazon business and get a great deal for Myself is just wrong. Maybe Amazon is the new Wal-Mart. As a frequent buyer at Amazon and a referrer from my 20 other sites, they just lost all my business.
PS- I signed with as anonymous because I do not want any backlash from Amazon with my referral fees still owed me. |
| 1027 | Valerie Frankel | This policy is wrong: Amazon can't have a monopoly on publishing! I for one will completely boycott them until the situation is remedied. |
| 1028 | Anonymous | |
| 1029 | James Brodhead | My daughter's first book has been published through PublishAmerica and the buy button has been pulled. We have been sending family and friends to Amazon to order their own copy. No more!
And I have notified Amazon that they will be the last place I will shop if they don't change this policy. |
| 1030 | T West | |
| 1031 | Geoff Clarke | Amazon's role was to bring authors and readers together. Since they no longer value authors, I will no longer be a reader of Amazon books (or anything else they offer). |
| 1032 | Thomas Pritchard | There is SO much wrong with what Amazon is trying to do with this move. |
| 1033 | E.J. Totty | No business should =EVER= engage in the exercise of exclusivity regarding the matter of published works, insofar as demanding singular distribution rights in the face of competitive access otherwise. |
| 1034 | Eric Collier | Please stop this unfair and unwise business practice |
| 1035 | Andrea Stacy | I am extremely disappointed that Amazon, once a small, scrappy company fighting to hold on and grow, would, now that it's large and successful, try to put small publishers of print-on-demand out of business. Shame on you. |
| 1036 | J Simon Cornette | |
| 1037 | sal perales | |
| 1038 | Barbara Hazard | |
| 1039 | Anonymous | I am a (very) small publisher barely making ends meet; I am disabled as is my son. If Amazon gets its way, we'll have to go on welfare. There are very few things that disabled people can do to pay their own way. 90% of us are poverty level. I know we're not the only ones. Amazon's profit grab will increase the demand on social services and tax payers.
I am a very proud person, proud that in spite of my disability, I can support us. I worked HARD for that. I don't take a dime from tax payers. I resent that Amazon wants to steal my self-sufficiency, integrity, self-respect and dignity. |
| 1040 | katherine warwick | This is ridiculous! |
| 1041 | marc daneker | |
| 1042 | Joseph J. Mauriello | |
| 1043 | Kate Schechter | |
| 1044 | Gloria WIlliams | Amazon should abandon this policy. It's unfair and damaging to many people. |
| 1045 | Michael Mclain | Forcing Amazon authors/publishers to use Amazon's print service goes against the beauty of Amazon and the freedom new technologies provide. This rule will sour many, many writers and publishers both large and small on the Amazon platform. |
| 1046 | Slim the wonder boy | Down with Amazon!!! |
| 1047 | Kathryn Houghton | |
| 1048 | Eliza Wyatt | |
| 1049 | Anonymous | |
| 1050 | Murphy Cutler | Stop Booksurge! |