Stop the BookSurge Monopoly

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   Name: A. F. Stewart on Mar 29, 2008

   Comments: This is unfair, wrong and a conflict of interest for Amazon.

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   Name: Paul Prescott on Mar 29, 2008

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   Name: Tracey on Mar 29, 2008

   Comments: 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.

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   Name: Anonymous on Mar 29, 2008

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   Name: Anonymous on Mar 29, 2008

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   Name: G. M. Lupo on Mar 29, 2008

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   Name: Anonymous on Mar 29, 2008

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   Name: Sheila English on Mar 29, 2008

   Comments: I'm also a business owner and sell books from our site.

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   Name: Julie Ann Shapiro on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Andy Lurig on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Nick Carbo on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: I will not use amazon for anything!

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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

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    Name: Aaron Lazar on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: This smacks of monopoly and will hurt folks on all sides of the publishing business.

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    Name: Jim Celer on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Gayle Arrowood on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: Stop this monopoly! It is pure gaul and much too greedy for us to give into to.

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: Not only am I a customer, I am a self published author whose books would be directly affected by this action.

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    Name: Jacqueline L. Jones on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Melissa Bach Palladino on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Angela Hoy on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: Customer service is the unlimited resource of all successful businesses. Writer's, publishers and readers are all Amazon's customers.

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    Name: Nick Urban on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: I've always liked Amazon, but this is shameful.

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    Name: Andrew Rollings on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: Can you say "Monopoly" I would imagine a court case will be forthcoming.

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    Name: Dominic Took on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Heather Kendall on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Shel Horowitz on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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

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    Name: Mike Reeves-McMillan on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Steven Utley on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Emily Veinglory on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Mary Rosenblum on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Henry Jaegers on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Dave M on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: An ISBN is an ISBN, sell all books with ISBNs without prejudice...

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Sune Donath on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Marnie Goodbody on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: This is anti-trust.

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    Name: Lida Verner on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Cheryl Pickett on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.)

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    Name: Adam Wieland on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: If this happens I will take my business elsewhere.

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Kimberly Bea on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: This move can only hurt the book industry as a whole.

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    Name: Jeanne Khan on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Robert R. Wahl on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: Amazon! You make us angry!

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Barbara Foster on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

    Comments: Do no Evil.

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    Name: Alex Marr on Mar 30, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2008

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