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By: Liz Azyan » Blog Archive » Update on People Power: “Collectively Organizing and Mobilizing Action” (COMA) is the the Twitter Revolution for Moldova Protest and Amazon Fail

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:44:19 +0000

[...] An open letter to Jeff Bezos [...]

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LediNews » Amazonfail e Il Costo Della Libertà. — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:43:22 +0000

[...] mentre riviste come Playboy sono state lasciate ai loro posti, come riportato nella lettera di Jon Reed. Questo problema ha creato scompiglio non solo negli Stati Uniti ma a livello globale rimuovendo i [...]

By: Did Amazon Fail? « Shannon Yarbrough

Did Amazon Fail? « Shannon Yarbrough — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:20:34 +0000

[...] People wrote letters to Amazon. [...]

By: Amazon Fail- or Why I’m Still Pissed Off « ELEANOR’S TROUSERS

Amazon Fail- or Why I’m Still Pissed Off « ELEANOR’S TROUSERS — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:34:19 +0000

[...] enough here, here, here, here, here, and here, new definitions of Amazon Rank, and calls to arms here, here, here, and [...]

By: Amazon Fail « Clancy Nacht: The Night Caller

Amazon Fail « Clancy Nacht: The Night Caller — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:57:03 +0000

[...] also this interesting “open letter” to Jeff Bezos with lots of links to other open letters and various articles. Let me just say that while this is at [...]

By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » AmazonFAIL and the bookseller’s new “adult” (read: homophobic) policy

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:59:21 +0000

[...] here is an “Open Letter to Jeff Bezos”, which also addresses the larger issue of censorship, from Publishing Talk’s John Reed. Some [...]

By: Luxie Ryder

Luxie Ryder — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:21:10 +0000

Thanks to all for their outrage over this matter. My book is mainstream romance with an erotic element. For those of you familiar with the genre, it is very tame (almost vanilla) compared to some I have read. I can no longer find my book in a search from the main page nor do I have a rating.
Many of my friends and colleagues have been affected by this insanity.

I call it insanity because most of our books are available elsewhere and if they can’t be found at Amazon, customers will simply start using the sites that do cater to them. I’d love to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where some bright spark thought it would be a good idea to alienate thousands of authors and their readers!

By: Dayngr

Dayngr — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:17:13 +0000

Thanks for not only speaking out but bringing this to the attention of others. Well said!

By: KeMari Blue

KeMari Blue — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:22:27 +0000

I couldn’t have said it better myself. I hope he does read it. It’s a shame too, because, you would think a bookseller, even a large corporation such as this, would welcome any and all books to be sold via its company. You would hope at the very least that they LOVE books as much as their customers.

Amazon has to be aware that alienating an entire community of people, not just gay and lesbian, but bisexual, transgender, any and all queer folk, and those who are friends and family of anyone from the LGBTQ community, is a bad, bad move on their part. In the end, its only hurting them.

By taking popular, award-winning books out of their ranks, they are forcing those of us seeking out these specific genres and books to look elsewhere (I prefer my local bookstores, truth be told).

It would seem that Amazon.com has become nothing more than the Walmart of bookselling.

How sad.

By: Sheila Ruth

Sheila Ruth — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:23:07 +0000

Very well said. I hope that Bezos reads it. This is such an unbelievable situation!