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Amazon & Used Books II: Bezos Strikes Back

Posted by timothy on from the eye-of-the-bookholder dept.

theodp writes: "Last week's call for authors to de-link Amazon from their sites has reportedly prompted Jeff Bezos to fire off a letter to all Amazon Marketplace sellers, asking them to help out by sending e-mail on Amazon's behalf in response to the Guild's call for Amazon to stop placing prominent used book ads on each title's main web entry and soliciting new books purchasers to resell their books through Amazon shortly after purchase. Bezos wants everyone to be 'super-clear' that Amazon.com is supportive of and good for authors, indicating that Amazon's steep discounting of new titles and royalty-less sales of used books are two examples of how Amazon helps the book industry and authors. Good to see Jeff's found a new cause, since it looks like he's done with up patent reform."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. first post for mathematics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the queen of the sciences

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  4. LUNIX SUCKS!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LUNIX SUCKS!!!

  5. Elegy for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a *BSD user
    and I try hard to be brave
    That is a tall order
    *BSD's foot is in the grave.

    I tap at my ty keyboard
    and whistle a cheerful tune
    but keeping happy is so hard,
    *BSD will be dead soon.

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    but *BSD is dying.
  6. bezos = hateful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and the same can be said of anybody who shops at amazon. barne and noble is just as good, the shipping is faster, and they do not abuse patents and authors. people need to make a stand or else everybody's rights will be crushed by amazon and those like them, all that amazon wants is profits and could care less about the greater good.

  7. Re:Writers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Does Katz count as a writer? By the amazon.com review of his book below, I'd say, "no".

    Jon Katz does have a problem but it isn't a midlife crisis. This is a book about an unemployed New Jersey writer who deserts his family for a couple of months to "find himself" by embarking on an odyssey to a local Vermont vacation home only to find that he's bored and runs back to his family for entertainment and a cure for his own shallowness. The "mountain" is a hill off a local Vermont highway. The "spiritual transformation" is analogous to that of a couch potato who feels hungry during Monday night football and heads back to the fridge to discover replenishment. The man has no insight. His thoughts and observations are as shallow as Howard Stern. He attempts to lend some credibility and substance to his ramblings by comparing himself with Thomas Merton and dragging Merton anecdotes in to pad the book where Katz clearly has nothing substantive to offer. Save a tree and avoid this book at all costs. Better yet, write your own and offer the rest of us something worthwhile to ponder rather than this drivel. If you read this book you will understand why Katz was unemployed when he wrote it.

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