Bastards.

[ellenmillion]

http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/004597_03272008.html

Amazon jumps the shark? I was already quite happy not to pay them more money for their overpriced services, and am NOT selling through them any longer. Nor will I be buying from them, now.

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[hailerro.livejournal.com]

Wow.
Just Wow.
What is it with the greed lately? LJ, Amazon, all of corporate America is outsourcing and then when not doing that they are gouging and trying to steal our cash twice as fast. (Would there even be much of a profit with the prices they want for using THEIR POD and then discounting the book after it's printed and then taking a cut after you sell, holy crap!)

[thrivis.livejournal.com]

wow.

Barnes and Noble for me only now.

[uminomamori.livejournal.com]

Crap. What about LULU? I know people who had paid lots (or had their book prices artificially inflated a lot) just to get ISBNS to sell through amazon after using LULU.

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the last time I bought books through Amazon (I did get some camera equipment through their partnerships about a year ago) - my own token form of Amazon-gobble-com protest is to cheerfully use them to research everything I'm interested in, keep updated wishlists for my family and look at other peoples' wishlists ... and then print the wishlists out and go shopping for books at my local bookseller. Mwoohahahahahaha!!

It makes me feel so .. subversive.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

I'd wait to pass judgement on any information coming from PublishAmerica. They're a vanity press, NOT a POD service, and notorious for scamming uninformed writers out of money.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

Oh my!