| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1101 | Brian Lochlaer | Will Amazon become the Wal-Mart of the publishing industry? |
| 1102 | Bobby Harwell | Amazon.com can attest to the fact that I am a book lover. So I'm letting them know that I don't like strongarm tactics that impedes competition and makes it harder for unknown writers to sell their books. B.H. |
| 1103 | Edward Smith | |
| 1104 | John Royce | Amazon has no right to use it's monopoly position in the online market to stifle creative innovation and private enterprise. |
| 1105 | Ann Louise Truschel | I guess no amount of money is enough money for Amazon.com. The requirement to use Booksurge is the epitome of greed, and it must be stopped. Otherwise there is nothing to stop Amazon from attempting to stifle competition in other areas. |
| 1106 | Ian Johnson | I am both a customer and an author whose book has been taken out of competition by Amazon's decision. I suspect that antitrust laws have been violated. |
| 1107 | Michele LaRue | (I am a freelance editor and writer.) |
| 1108 | AW Lake | I would like to see all existing POD customers, or authors, at least grandfathered into Amazon's new scheme. I don not think that Amazon has communicated why it has implimented this policy, and it seems to come from pressure either commercial or otherwise, as it does not appear to be very wise in the long term. It is behoven the various anti-monopolistic practice people to outlaw the tactics Amazon has used and perhaps a new administration in Washington would advance the cause of independent writers. I think I am forced to look at alternative to Amazon for things that I write even though I might not wish to do so. Their action lacks long term trust, which I am sure now they view in money terms and not growing a business. This will do irreparable harm to their public relations efforts, as writers recall what has happened. |
| 1109 | Daffni Percival | I'm about to remove all my amazon bookstores and links from my site. |
| 1110 | Dave Andrews | Americans don't like monopolies. In this internet-driven day and age, it's a mistake to alienate a group like this.
Prices are already soaring. Forcing higher cost and offering lower quality to line your own pockets when you're already doing well is a good way to start losing business. |
| 1111 | Anonymous | Don't like these tactics |
| 1112 | rosalind joffe | |
| 1113 | Lynn Radford | This has gotten entirely out of hand! The situation needs to be curbed quickly, lest we, the writers and small POD publishers, lose out completely. Big business does not now, nor has it ever had the right to railroad smaller businesses! Just because it happens all too frequently, does not make it legal! |
| 1114 | Anonymous | |
| 1115 | Joshua Cogliati | I will no longer be buying books from Amazon.com if they proceed with this. |
| 1116 | Wendy Stevens | As a customer, I've enjoyed the convenience and free shipping of Amazon, but as a writer looking to publish one way or another, I find this attempt at a monopoly scarey. Now I plan to check out Indigo.com and others places first before automatically shoping Amazon, to see if I can help stop a monopoly. |
| 1117 | Kirk Meyer | |
| 1118 | Romell Weekly | I'm a newly published author, and it was difficult to get the process done. I certainly don't need Amazon trying to make things more difficult. |
| 1119 | Michael Schultz | Please stop. This is an unfair practice that is hurtful to small publishers and authors. |
| 1120 | Melissa Hollingsworth | I've always loved Amazon, but this is just not cool. One of Amazon's best features is that I can use it to find hard-to-find things. Now they want to put up a roadblock?
This isn't just hard on small publishers. It's a problem for readers, too. Amazon may shoot itself in the foot as the one-stop book shop on the Internet. |
| 1121 | Bonnie Marie DeWolfe | I believe Amazon should not be allowed to price fix the way they do! |
| 1122 | Mary Anne Hahn | |
| 1123 | Robert Hunter | |
| 1124 | David Fingerman | A couple of extra days delay in shipping doesn't bother me at all. |
| 1125 | Dom Turner | |
| 1126 | Barbara J. Ortscheid | This is an outrage. |
| 1127 | Valerie Murphy | I buy most of my books from Amazon, and am shocked to hear that they are pressurising small publishers in this manner. I'll think twice before I buy books from Amazon again. |
| 1128 | Jesper Jensen | |
| 1129 | Ann Pelly | I do all of my book buying from Amazon (or I should say that I did). I am a reader, a writer and an editor--and I do not like bullies. Amazon has forgotten that there are alternatives (online and otherwise) for book buyers and authors. It is no great trouble to me to stop using Amazon and buy my books elsewhere. |
| 1130 | Alana Abbott | If this remains amazon's policy, I will no longer purchase books from them. (I am currently not buying books from them because of this decision.) |
| 1131 | Alex | I will stop using amazon altogether until this issue is resolved |
| 1132 | Dev Green | It's time to force fairplay from Amazon.
Many of us barely blinked when offline bookstores closed down...but it's time to stop Amazon, the 800 pound gorilla in the room that wants to smash everything it doesn't control. |
| 1133 | Samuel Southwell | It is an outrage to say that it is in the customer's best interest to have Booksurge print there book for them. It would be the same as saying that it would be quicker for a movie theater to download the bootleg copy of a film and show it on there big screen HD TV's.
Give me a break. |
| 1134 | A.J. Luxton | |
| 1135 | Britt Breu | In protest, I will not purchase anything from Amazon. |
| 1136 | Anonymous | Monopoly is always bad for consumers who eventually will have no choice. |
| 1137 | Kevin J. Coolidge | Not only do I spend in 1,000's at Amazon.com every year. I am also a POD author |
| 1138 | Alexander Teodoro Martins | Besides a long-time Amazon customer I've recently released and published a book I've co-authored in Brazil, and while researching ways of printing and distributing the english version in the US I came accross Amazon's tactics: absolutely abusive, subversive and plain simple wrong. I, for one, will no longer be shopping through Amazon, much less publish or distribute my book there. As I read on a letter from SPAN's Executive Director: bad publicity stays around for a long time. |
| 1139 | Anonymous | It is like when you go to Pizza Hut, they offer PEPSI, and thats why I stopped going there,, because I like COKE !!! It is the same tactic and it sucks. But people, let us not forget that it is Jeff's website, and he can do whatever he wants with his joint. As a POD writer I only look for 5 things for such services. CHEAP (not a ripoff 50%) of the price to middlemen, variety of formats (not that stupid kindle that noone is using), SECURE transactions, fast delivery, and payment on the SPOT (like paypal, not after 3 months!). And I think you should do business through such people, and not look at only one thing that most people look in Amazon, which is exposure due to massive traffic. That is not the holy graal of POD. People can find you through many ways, do not put all your eggs in the Amazon basket. |
| 1140 | Nola Kelsey | I am off to remove my books from Amazon's Kidle |
| 1141 | Kathryn Ann | I am a self-published author and also frequent customer of Amazon. This is deplorable on their part. I can no longer support this company in good conscience. Thank you for placing the petition. It effects many friends who also self-publish or use POD services. |
| 1142 | Dina Iordanova | |
| 1143 | Anonymous | Fuck you amazon. /story |
| 1144 | Cheryel Hutton | Shame on Amazon! I can't believe a company of your size and reputation is resorting to extortion. |
| 1145 | Laura Harrison McBride | I am also an independent publisher, and I find Amazon's actions reprehensible. Alas, I also have no confidence in the current climate that any anti-trust action will be brought against them. |
| 1146 | leo boeckl | I have to say that though I use Amazon for many of book purchases I think I am going to stop buying from them. I think Barnes and Noble actually has better pricing if you are a member and so I joined Barnes and Noble. I have no idea why Amazon which has become an enormous retailer would stomp the POD industry? There's not enough revenue there to even contemplate this. |
| 1147 | William Ligon | |
| 1148 | Anonymous | |
| 1149 | James LeClaire | |
| 1150 | William Walling | The Amazon/Booksurge attempt at establishing a monopoly stinks! |