Stop the BookSurge Monopoly

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1. 151
   Name: Mike Fairbanks on Mar 30, 2008

   Comments: This practice is unacceptable. If they are concerned with POD authors offering too little of a cut of sales, they need to set a standard rate or percentage per item and let the author take that into account. Demanding 48% or 55% is a ridiculously high figure that seems aimed at driving all others to no profit and out of the business. It is the author, more than anyone, that they will drive from the market. Without the authors, they will have nothing to sell.

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2. 152
   Name: Cheryl Miller on Mar 30, 2008

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3. 153
   Name: Charles Prael on Mar 31, 2008

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4. 154
   Name: James Lewis on Mar 31, 2008

   Comments: It will be difficult for me to do business with Amazon if they continue with this policy. After all, there is Barnes and Noble, Books a Million and many small independent book stores

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5. 155
   Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

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6. 156
   Name: Kenneth Huey on Mar 31, 2008

   Comments: Monopoly is the enemy of creativity, innovation, and human liberty. I will never again buy thru Amazon if it pursues this line of conduct.

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7. 157
   Name: Jeanne DeVoto on Mar 31, 2008

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8. 158
   Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

   Comments: As a consumer I've spent thousands of dollars at Amazon, and made them thousands of dollars selling in Amazon Marketplace. I will be publishing several books this year via Lightning Source and was looking forward to placing them on Amazon. But if I have to use BN instead, and end all further relationship with Amazon, so be it. The Book Surge route is obscenely expensive, and they deliver a notoriously poor product. This is just too greedy.

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9. 159
   Name: Kendall P. Bullen on Mar 31, 2008

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10. 160
    Name: Timothy Fairbank on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Dear Amazon: stop this nonsense immediately, or else kiss your best customers goodbye. You have been warned.

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11. 161
    Name: Shelley Marlow on Mar 31, 2008

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12. 162
    Name: Marvin Grant on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: I use Lulu.com regularly for small scale book projects and am quite happy with the results. I don't see any need for them to be forced to change things.

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13. 163
    Name: Jeanne Tomlin on Mar 31, 2008

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14. 164
    Name: Frederick Price on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Amazon.com's decision to remove the "Buy Now" buttons from POD books not published through their BookSurge publishing program will have a long term, negative effect on this company's reputation. It is difficult to believe that they could stoop so low in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

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15. 165
    Name: D M Wilson on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: As a business method, this is counter-productive, and as an affront to the community, totally unacceptable.

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16. 166
    Name: Mel Grimes on Mar 31, 2008

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17. 167
    Name: Anne Brooke on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Amazon should not be doing this - it is unfair to the small publisher. We at Goldenford use POD and already they're simply not stocking our books. Amazon should be stopped from taking such unfair actions.

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18. 168
    Name: Adrian Drake on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Monopolies help nobody except Monopoly owner.

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19. 169
    Name: Kent Skinner on Mar 31, 2008

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20. 170
    Name: Richard Riley on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: This is a VERY bad move by Amazon. It will absolutely reduce what I spend with Amazon.

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21. 171
    Name: June on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: What amazon are doing is bully boy tactics designed to stop free enterprise and competiion - they should not be able to get away with this !

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22. 172
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: This is clearly a case of Amazon trying to use their market share as a retailer to force producers into relationships with Amazon's other business segments. This is patently ridiculous, and if not outright illegal, certainly unethical.

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23. 173
    Name: Hannah on Mar 31, 2008

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24. 174
    Name: Joe Gregory on Mar 31, 2008

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25. 175
    Name: Sam Liddicott on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Amazon, you total idiots. Your customers don't want you to own the world and will make sure you don't. They just want a good old service like you used to offer.

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26. 176
    Name: Sander Stoks on Mar 31, 2008

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27. 177
    Name: William Flinn on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: What happened to the benevolent Amazon I thought I knew Why are you trying to turn into microsoft There will be a backlash. Please try to be the good guy and not the evil empire, I would hate to stop shopping you.

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28. 178
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

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29. 179
    Name: Lola Lee Beno on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: This is a ridiculous demand and will stifle innovation.

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30. 180
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

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31. 181
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: This is anti-competitive behavoir, if it was in the software industry (i.e.microsoft) it would never be allowed to happen, so why can it in the book industry

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32. 182
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: This can't go on.

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33. 183
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Its blatant misuse of monopoly. Hopefully, the EU will take action, if the US legal system won't.

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34. 184
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

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35. 185
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: I am a big buyer at Amazon. I am a author who has been published by several mainstream publishing houses. I am also a publisher who uses POD technology to publish good books in a niche area (and we never charge our authors). These Amazon tactics are deplorable, and their mafia-like actions force me to remain anonymous on this petition. What's next Will they force Kellogg's to use Amazon-owned manufacturing plants to make their cereal if they want to be sold by Amazon

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36. 186
    Name: David Hall on Mar 31, 2008

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37. 187
    Name: Nigel Powell on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: This is a greedy, stupid and ignorant action being taken by Amazon and they really need to realise that it's going to put a lot of customers off dealing with a company that is so avaricious.

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38. 188
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

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39. 189
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Please respect writers. Thank you.

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40. 190
    Name: Everton Green on Mar 31, 2008

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41. 191
    Name: Amber Whitman on Mar 31, 2008

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42. 192
    Name: Conrad on Mar 31, 2008

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43. 193
    Name: Robert West on Mar 31, 2008

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44. 194
    Name: Thord Daniel Hedengren on Mar 31, 2008

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45. 195
    Name: Sean Wallace on Mar 31, 2008

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46. 196
    Name: Jeff A. Benner on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: As a writer who uses a POD publisher I am awestruck at this takeover which is unfair to writers, publishers and Amazon customers.

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47. 197
    Name: Jeannette Spencer on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: Creating a monopoly is never good. Your vision statement says: "Our vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online."

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48. 198
    Name: Gregory Deych on Mar 31, 2008

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49. 199
    Name: Sharon Bakar on Mar 31, 2008

    Comments: this monopoly is totally unfair and i will take my custom elsewhere

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50. 200
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 31, 2008

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