| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1151 | Anonymous | |
| 1152 | Jenny | |
| 1153 | Landon Parks | I own a small publishing company and I must say that we will not be entering into this contract with Amazon. We will be referring all future sales to Barnes & Nobles online bookstore (www.bn.com) which has always been a better seller than Amazon, for us anyway. |
| 1154 | Kit Park | Amazon is displaying the ugly, miserly face of capitalism. We must unite and take action! |
| 1155 | Don Bell | This is a terrible, greedy move on Amazon's part; totally immoral. Chapters.indigo.ca now gets my business! |
| 1156 | Brett Brady | I too am an independently published author affiliated with a prominent POD, and I am also seriously worried about the fate of our industry and my place and potential in it - |
| 1157 | Jane Lovering | I am an author. |
| 1158 | Gill Suttle | |
| 1159 | James W Wiggins | Amazon's position seems very monopolistic and this move will vastly strengthen their monopoly status. I sincerely hope that Amazon/BookSurge will unilaterally change their policy or that the government will force them to do so. I have changed my policy of looking at Amazon first when web shopping. It is now last. |
| 1160 | Anonymous | I used to drop thousands a year at Amazon.com and affiliates. As of today, I'm not even going to visit their site until I hear this reversed. I've been getting increasingly annoyed at them despite being a long-time fan, and this is the last insight into treatment to come I'm going to take. |
| 1161 | Anonymous | Not only do POD books represent a great percentage of Amazon's inventory, esp. since most POD books are not on bookstore shelves, but Amazon sells used books without giving a royalty to authors. If this were another art media that wouldn't be possible. In addition, purchasers of all Amazon.books are charged a much higher postal rate than media rate and are then sent by media rate, a profit-making rip-off. One good thing that may come out of this greedy BookSurge policy is great negative PR toward Amazon. What are they thinking? Short-term gain for long-term loss?
Next headline: Goose kills Golden Egg!
Frankie Schelly
Author/Publisher
AT THE CROSSROADS - ISBN 1-931391-32-7
CHANCE PLACE P ISBN 1-59113-220-7 |
| 1162 | Mary Rajotte | |
| 1163 | Anonymous | I am not only a customer, but a small publisher with books listed on Amazon.com. I have personally had very bad experience with Booksurge (before it was aquired by Amazon) and would not use them for printing unless I absolutely had to. This is a blatent, unconstitutional attack against free enterprise. |
| 1164 | Thomas J. Eckstein | |
| 1165 | Binaebi Akah | The whole point of a market is to provide multiple options for the consumer. This is ridiculous and monopolistic. |
| 1166 | jeanette mccarthy | this is utterly outrageous. Count me in to the petition |
| 1167 | Mitja Slenc | |
| 1168 | Patrica Brown | Amazon is seeking a monopoly, pure and simple. If POD publishers cave in we will all be paying more for our books, which means fewer books published. Fight them. |
| 1169 | Anonymous | Ever the odd-ball, I think this is much ado about nothing. I objected to amazon offering used books until I discovered I could obtain copies of my own POD novels from them at a lower rate than I could using my POD publisher's author's discount.
I find their published statement in this new contraversy more than reasonable. Read it for yourself @ http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-printondemand
Any POD publisher who does not wish to use the BookSurge printing facility is invited to send amazon 5 hard copies at a time to keep their volumes "in stock" |
| 1170 | Mihi Morgan | Amazon, you disgust me. I never had any problem at all buying the occasional book from you. Once I read about your bullying tactics however, all bets were off. Any decent human being with half a brain will be signing this petition against you. I'm firmly behind the authors, the agents, and the publishers who depend on the success of their books to sell. I won't be buying from you, and I'll be advising my family and friends to follow my lead. |
| 1171 | Anonymous | This is most certainly an unfair and greedy position to take. If you want to play king, then we will de-throne you. |
| 1172 | Anonymous | |
| 1173 | Owen Waring | Amazon, what happened? Up until this moment you were my shining beacon in a dark labyrinth of eCommerce niche sites with outrageous shipping.
I am an Amazon Prime subscriber and use it to buy any goods available online through your store whenever possible. However, your attempt to strong arm a budding industry to create a printing monopoly is making me seriously consider a boycott of your stores and those of your affiliates. Please don't make me do this. It's not too late to change course on this matter. |
| 1174 | Melvin Reed | Amazon's action is clearly monopolistic. They want to control whose books they sell in order to protect their own investment in a self-publisher. What is there about this that lawyers cannot see? Why is this an issue? |
| 1175 | Rev Douglas S Sweet | I cannot believe this to be Amazon's policy. If so, it will be my policy to go else where. Simple enough for me, both as a prospective new author and definitely as a consumer; and I have spent substantial amounts at Amazon over the years. Wish I had known earlier about the truth of their integrity. Enough outlets exist for me to go else where. I am especially disappointed to think how Amazon’s profits compare to the author’s who have fueled their negligent ambitions. No one will win. The cost is far beyond the bottom line alone. They can have the money and their monopoly and take it with them when they pass on. The story concerning their plea to better serve their customers is terribly weak. In the process, they are destroying the industry that has served them; but who cares about the writers, the publishers, printers and associated service providers that have created the book market Amazon has cornered. As more people become aware of the truth of integrity at stake here many will be compelled to boycott. The world is in enough turmoil without adding more fuel to the fire. Your decision making is not a good sign especially in the mix of things. Here is a chance to make a difference if you so choose. Good luck! |
| 1176 | Christine Bode | As a writer who has used Lulu.com to self-publish with wonderful results, I am very saddened and distressed to learn of Amazon's monopoly on the Print-On-Demand Industry and I am totally against it! |
| 1177 | Barbara McLaughlin | |
| 1178 | Amelia M. Christnot | |
| 1179 | Anonymous | |
| 1180 | ANDREW SWEET | |
| 1181 | Daniel M. Swaney | |
| 1182 | Helen Hollick | I am a UK POD author - Amazon.com cannot be allowed to bully us into doing things their way. This must stop. |
| 1183 | Bam C Bjorn | |
| 1184 | Sky Cosby | This is bullshit. Fuck big corporations and their personhood status too!
Support some sort of online booksellers union that can force the big guys to take 5% rather than gouging us for 20% per sale. If we could organize the sellers themselves we could fend off the sprawling company by all removing our inventories in a concerted effort. |
| 1185 | aaron jones | this cant be done |
| 1186 | Matthew Baldwin | |
| 1187 | Nancy Miller | |
| 1188 | Anna Korpak | |
| 1189 | Anonymous | |
| 1190 | James Peron | |
| 1191 | Brandie Tarvin |
| 1192 | Isiah Hurts | |
| 1193 | Jane Haas |
| 1194 | Ron Leming | |
| 1195 | Theresa Royal | |
| 1196 | Linda Samuel | |
| 1197 | Robert L Austin | |
| 1198 | John Simone | Publishers have the right to have their products created by whatever vendor they choose. For the company that handles distribution to make this choice is unacceptable. The agreement with Lightning Source has, in the past, worked well. Amazon is getting greedy and I believe it is violating anti-trust laws. |
| 1199 | mansoor Shah | I have used a small publisher with POD and Amazon have made it very difficult to make my book available to its customers |
| 1200 | James Bush | |