Amazon has a print-on-demand subsidiary, BookSurge. Amazon/BookSurge are now telling POD publishers that unless they print through BookSurge the buy now buttons will be disabled/removed from their titles listed on Amazon.com.
For a full report on the situation that has developed – and I ask that everyone read the report - this link will lead you to Angela Hoy’s report on writersweekly.com.
http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest
It is about time that the American book trade learned that you can't keep screwing authors indefinitely without eventually discovering that you are screwing yourself as well.
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
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BOOKS READ 2012
1. How Carrots Won The Trojan War: Curious (but true) Stores of Common Vegetables by Rebecca Rupp
2. Calling Mr. King by Ronald DeFeo
3. Spin Control by Amy King
4. The Joy of Spinning by Marilyn Kluger
5. Star Spinning by Maggie Casey
6. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
7. Triple Pursuit by Ralph McInerny
8) Hercule Poirot’s Casebook by Agatha Christie
9) Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
NOW READING
Well, I can't decide what is next...
COMPANIES & STATES
THAT I BOYCOTT
Lindt – child slavery
Ferrero Rocher – child slavery
American Crystal Sugar
Salvation Army
Whole Foods
Stonyfield Farms
Organic Valley
Comcast
Esterline Industries
TARGET stores
Dr. Pepper
7 Up
Hawaiian Punch
Sunkist
A&W
Canada Dry
Crush
Snapple
Mott’s
Schweppes
Squirt
Sundrop
Welch’s
Yoohoo
DejaBlue
Vernors
IBC Root Beer
Country Time
Clamato
Nantucket Nectars
Real Lemon/Real Lime
Stewart’s Root Beer
Diet Rite
Orangina
Hires
Rose’s Lime Juice
Penafiel
Margaritaville
Mr. and Mrs. T
RC Cola
Mott's Apple Sauce
Mott’s Fruitsations
Mott’s Garden Cocktail
Holland House
BP
Transocean & Halliburton (their contractors)
ARIZONIA - for racial profiling
Best Buy for obnoxious ads on LJ
General Mills
Crystal sugar
Dreyer's (rBGH products)
Edy's (rBGH products)
Haagen-Dazs (rBGH products)
Klondike (rBGH products)
Good Humor (rBGH products)
Breyer's (rBGH products)
Elanco (rBGH dist)
Eli Lilly (rBGH maker)
Quiltmaker (mag)
Verizon
JoAnn's Fabric & Craft Stores
Boca Java Coffee
Home Depot
JC Penny
MONSANTO
TYSON
Dow
McDonald's
Coca-Cola/Coke
Hess
Exxon
Chevron
Kellogg's
Starbucks
Hershey's
Morningstar Farms
Kraft
M&M/Mars
Nestle's
Kimberly-Clark
Walmart
Shell
--Supporters of Glen Beck --
Accu-Chek (Roche)
BuyWaterJet.com
CancerCenter.com
Carbonite.com
Cash4Gold.com
Citrix
Clarity Media Group
Consumer Debt
Cooney & Conway
Conservatives for Patient's Right
Dannon.com
Discover
EasyWater.com
EmpireToday.com
EncoreDental.com
ExploreHumana.com
ExtenZE
Goldline International, Inc.
GoToMeeting.com
Johnson Law Group
LearCapital.com
LibertyMedical.com
LifeLock
Merit Financial
National Review
NecklineSlimmer.com
News Corp.
OxiClean
Pearle Vision
PulaskiLawFirm.com
Roche Diagonostics
Rosland Capital
ServPro.com
SmartBalance
TDAmeritrade
The Villages
VeteranMeso.com
Video Professor
ZeroWater.com
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You know, I get really pissed at Amazon sometimes...makes me sorry I started writing reviews for them. I haven't been in the mood for reviewing books lately because of it, even though there are many books I've read that I would like to review.
And I still order a book or two from them anyway, from time to time...when I can't nail the book down from another source. Makes me feel like a traitor.
Borders is in the red, btw, will most likely get swallowed up (by Amazon, no doubt!).