Comments on: The Newest Kerfluffle in the Romance World

By: Kindle vs Nook | Sonja Foust, Romance Author

Kindle vs Nook | Sonja Foust, Romance Author — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:32 +0000

[...] one’s a little touchy-feely, but Amazon.com has a tendency to be evil or play hardball now and then, especially, it seems, with regard to romance authors. If I buy a [...]

By: Sonja Foust, Romance Author

Sonja Foust, Romance Author — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:01:46 +0000

[...] I promise this is my last soap-boxy post on the whole Amazon mess. If you have, in fact, decided to boycott Amazon.com or would just like to support your local [...]

By: Marcia Colette

Marcia Colette — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:49:59 +0000

Sadly, Amazon probably got what they wanted in the end. Publicity. Good or bad doesn’t matter. People are hitting their site like never before.

What amazes me most is that one of the threads said they had been doing it well over a year and nobody has caught on until now. So yes. This makes me wonder what other dirty monopoly we’ll find them hiding as the months go on.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:14:39 +0000

I am simply amazed that they would do something like this…
as in speechless.

By: Beth C.

Beth C. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:18:11 +0000

Oh, yeah I think Amazon really needs to quit messing with stuff.

I can understand the wanting to limit what minors might be exposed to…but make it an option. Not wholesale make it impossible for anyone to find a large segment of books. And eliminating a sales rank is just plain bad business. Those author/sellers should be able to tell how their product is doing.

As I saw someone else mention on one of the many threads I read over the weekend, makes you wonder what else Amazon is hiding from people in their ‘best interest’.